Ebb

Quick meaning: Ebb is a noun meaning The receding movement of the tide.

Meaning

The receding movement of the tide.

More Meanings

1. A gradual decline.
2. (especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
3. A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
4. low, shallow
5. (intransitive) to flow back or recede
6. (intransitive) to fall away or decline
7. (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb

Example Sentences

The boats will go out on the ebb.

Painting was then at its lowest ebb.

Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow / Claspest the limits of morality!

Thus all the treasure of our flowing years, / Our ebb of life for ever takes away.

Word Forms

• ebbs
• ebbe
• ebber
• ebbest
• ebbing
• ebbed

Synonyms for ebb

Depending on context, synonyms include go out, ooze, reflux, wane, low, ebbing.

Antonyms for ebb

Common opposites include flood, flow, surge, tide.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include low, reflux, wane, receding, valley, flux.

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