ALL meanings of ebb
ebb
E e - noun ebb The movement of the tide out to sea. 1
- noun ebb the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow). 1
- noun ebb a flowing backward or away; decline or decay: the ebb of a once great nation. 1
- noun ebb a point of decline: His fortunes were at a low ebb. 1
- verb without object ebb to flow back or away, as the water of a tide (opposed to flow). 1
- verb without object ebb to decline or decay; fade away: His life is gradually ebbing. 1
- noun ebb tide outward flow 1
- noun ebb decline 1
- intransitive verb ebb tide: flow back 1
- verb ebb When the tide or the sea ebbs, its level gradually falls. 0
- countable noun ebb The ebb or the ebb tide is one of the regular periods, usually two per day, when the sea gradually falls to a lower level as the tide moves away from the land. 0
- verb ebb If someone's life, support, or feeling ebbs, it becomes weaker and gradually disappears. 0
- verb ebb Ebb away means the same as ebb. 0
- verb ebb (of tide water) to flow back or recede 0
- verb ebb to fall away or decline 0
- noun ebb the flowing back of the tide from high to low water or the period in which this takes place 0
- noun ebb (as modifier) 0
- noun ebb the flow of water back toward the sea, as the tide falls 0
- noun ebb a weakening or lessening; decline 0
- intransitive verb ebb to flow back; recede, as the tide 0
- intransitive verb ebb to weaken or lessen; decline 0