ebb
noun
[ ɛb ]
• the movement of the tide out to sea.
• "the tide was on the ebb"
Similar:
receding,
going out,
flowing back,
retreat,
retreating,
drawing back,
abating,
subsiding,
retrocession,
ebb
verb
• (of tidewater) move away from the land; recede.
• "the tide began to ebb"
Similar:
recede,
go out,
retreat,
flow back,
draw back,
fall back,
fall away,
abate,
subside,
retrocede,
Opposite:
come in,
• (of an emotion or quality) gradually decrease.
• "my enthusiasm was ebbing away"
Similar:
diminish,
dwindle,
wane,
fade away,
melt away,
peter out,
decline,
die away,
die down,
die out,
flag,
let up,
lessen,
decrease,
weaken,
dissolve,
disappear,
come to an end,
deteriorate,
decay,
degenerate,
remit,
abatement,
subsiding,
easing,
waning,
dwindling,
petering out,
dying away,
dying down,
dying out,
fading away,
de-escalation,
diminution,
diminishing,
lessening,
Origin:
Old English ebba (noun), ebbian (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch ebbe (noun), ebben (verb), and ultimately to of which had the primary sense ‘away from’.
