ebb
eb
- n a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- n the outward flow of the tide
- v flow back or recede
the tides ebbed at noon - v hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
- v fall away or decline
The patient's strength ebbed away
- He is credited with having saved thoroughbred racing when it was at its lowest ebb in the East, after the repeal of the racing law in New York State.
- Similarly, in its journal this month, the American Academy of Pediatrics protests the ebb of recess, arguing that "undirected play allows children to learn how to work in groups .
- After 32 years, Tide ebbed last week in a sea of red and disappeared.