Noun
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the outward flow of the tide
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a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
Verb
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fall away or decline
"The patient's strength ebbed away"
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hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
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flow back or recede
"the tides ebbed at noon"
- ebb away - ebb down - ebb out - ebb off