ebbing
e bing
- n a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- v flow back or recede
- 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
- In his 16 years at city hall, Daley, 62, has presided over the city's transition from graying hub to vibrant boomtown, with a newly renovated football stadium, an ebbing murder .
- As the poison dripped down Feng Xiaodan's throat, she imagined her toil and agony finally ebbing away.
- Around him he saw his Socialist Party disintegrating; within him he felt his strength ebbing.