Ebbed

/ɛbd/ · adjective

Meaning

Having receded, or reduced in amount, intensity, or importance; diminished..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having receded, or reduced in amount, intensity, or importance; diminished.
2. simple past and past participle of ebb

Example Sentences

And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared, by being lacked.

But now, like the ebbed finances of one out of place, every thing seems to hang about it lose and empty.

They flushed hotly as they met by chance and their hands touched in the slack clasp of an ebbed friendship.

Presided over by a political monster, with two sons waiting in the possible succession who had more than shown their own aptitude for cruelties that most of the good peace marchers will find nearly unthinkable without their being overcome by existential revulsion and fear, a regime that was certainly a continuing threat to those living under it and perceived, quite reasonable, as a potential if not immediate threat beyond its borders, Saddam's regime gave no grounds at all for confidence in the hypotesis of an “ebbed” future level of killing.

My first clear—my first new memory is of waking, slowly, so slowly, with the languor of a fever patient whose crisis is past, in an ebbed, remote lucidity as unfamiliar as the feel of sheets.

There were those still living, said Serik when I got back to the car, who had visited the graves since childhood and had watched as, decade by decade, the water below first withdrew, then further withdrew, until the vessels in their obsolescence were abandoned, circumscribed by a shrinking pond and then, as the water vanished, set down in the dry sediment, canted there as if by an ebbed tide that had failed to come back.

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