ebb

Meaning

Noun

1. The receding movement of the tide.
2. A gradual decline.
3. A low state; a state of depression.
4. A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).

Adj

low, shallow

Verb

1. to flow back or recede
2. to fall away or decline
3. to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
4. To cause to flow back.

Synonyms

decline

low tide

decrease

subside

reflux

recede

ebb tide

fall

dry up

wane

ebb out

ebb off

falling tide

ebb away

ebbing

drop

flow back

fade

fail

retreat

set

low water

dip

ebb down

decay

degenerate

depress

descent

detente

deteriorate

dike

diminish

diminution

discharge

downturn

drop-off

dry

dwindle

enumerate

evaporate

fade away

failure

fall away

fall back

falloff

figure

flat

flood

flow

flux

get down

give in

give way to

go down

go out

halt

invoice

landing

lessen

lessening

let

let down

liquid

loss

lour

lower

neap tide

northwest

northwestward

number

🔢

numerate

posit

put down

rack

rebate

recession

reckon

regress

relapse

relent

retrograde

sinking

slacken

sluice

slums

stanch

staunch

stem

tally

tap

trim down

weaken

work out

yield

be dry

defer to

melt away

taper off

refluence

subduce

be diminished

deminish

defervesce

ebbtide

nor’-west

tide way

fall of the sea

abate

lowtide

abatement

amelioration

back down

back up

bill

blench

boil down

bow

🙇

calculate

cave in

check

chit

cipher

climb down

come down

compute

count

🔢

cypher

dam

dam up

debouch

declivity

deduct

deflation

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛb/

Etymology

From Middle English ebbe, from Old English ebba (“ebb, tide”), from Proto-West Germanic *abbjā, from Proto-Germanic *abjô, *abjǭ, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“off, away”), from Proto-Indo-European *apó.
See also West Frisian ebbe, Dutch eb, German Ebbe, Danish ebbe, Old Norse efja (“countercurrent”), Old English af. More at of, off.