Ebb

Definition: Ebb

Ebb

Noun

1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).

2. The outward flow of the tide.

Verb

1. Flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon".

2. Hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb.

3. Fall away or decline; "The patient's strength ebbed away".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ebb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Geography

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EBB

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Synonyms: Ebb

Contraction

Verb: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay; (deteriorate).

Deterioration

Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse,Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

Noun: deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb; recession; retrogradation; decrease.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble.

Subsidence, wane, ebb, decline; ebbing; descent; decrement, reflux, depreciation; deterioration; anticlimax; mitigation; (moderation).

Regression

Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.

Refluence, reflux; backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return; resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil); flip-flop, volte-face.

Waste

Noun: consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion; ebb; leakage; (exudation); loss; wear and tear; waste; prodigality; misuse; wasting; Verb: rubbish; (useless). mountain in labor.

Leak; (run out); run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.

Crosswords: Ebb

Swedish (ebb, Ebb tide, low tide).

Flo! Ebb a bit. (Carry On Cruising; writing credit: Eric Barker; Norman Hudis)

Ebb (The War; writing credit: Kathy McWorter)

That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)

There's a blue whale beached by a springtime's ebb (King Of Pain; performing artist: The Police)

Ebb Tide (1937)

Life in Ebb and Flow (2001)

Ebb Tide (performing artist: The Righteous Brothers)

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Books

• Ebb & Flo and the Baby Seal (reference)

• Ebb & Flo and the Greedy Gulls (reference)

• Ebb and Flo and the New Friend (reference)

• Ebb Tide (Mariner's Library Fiction Classics, 14) (reference)

• Ebb Tides and Other Tales (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Musical Life in Concert - Kander & Ebb (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Telemann: Viola Concerto/Don Quichotte/Overture "Hamburger Ebb and Flut"/Overture in D (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The ebb tide carrying clear and muddy waters into the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Front elevation. Photograph by John P. O'Neill, March 3, 1937. (Reproduction Number: HABS, ARIZ,10-TUCSO.V,3-5) The Mission of San Xavier del Bac is generally considered one of the most beautiful of the Spanish missions in the United States. In 1797 the church was constructed of adobe on a site that had been a mission since the beginning of the 1700s. It is shown here following restoration work completed in the early 1900's. The history of the mission mirrors the ebb and flow of the Spanish presence in the southwest. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ebb tide. Credit: Library of Congress.

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There was a kind of vague ebb and flow in his brain

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Economic History

Madagascar

In 1947, with French prestige at low ebb, a nationalist uprising was suppressed only after several months of bitter fighting. (references)

Belgium

Geographically and culturally, Belgium is at the crossroads of Europe, and during the past 2,000 years has witnessed a constant ebb and flow of different races and cultures. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "ebb": at a low ebb ♦ be at a low ebb ♦ be at an ebb ♦ be at low ebb ♦ Ebb and flow ♦ ebb away ♦ ebb delta ♦ ebb down ♦ ebb of life ♦ ebb off ♦ ebb out ♦ ebb tide ♦ fall to a low ebb. Additional references.

Beginning with "ebb": ebb-sleepers, Ebb-tide.

Albanian

zbaticë (Ebb tide, reflux), tërhiqet, dobësohem (become weak, decay, dilute, fail, flag, grow feeble, grow thin, lag, languish, melt, reduce, relax, sink, slip, tone down, wane, weaken, wilt), dobësim (breakdown, debilitation, decline, decrepitude, depravation, dilution, emaciation, emasculation, enervation, exhaustion, failure, flagging, wane, weakening). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جزرالبحر (ebb tide), ‏جزر (insularity, spring tide), ‏إنحسار المد, ‏إنحسر المد, ‏إنحطاط (baseness, declination, degeneration, degradation, devolution, looseness, low tide, prostration, recession, retrogression), ‏إنحط (decay, decline, degenerate, degrade, retrograde). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спадам (decline, decrease, deflate, dip, ease, ease off, fall, lower, recede, sag, sink, turn down), гасна (die down, dim, diminish, fail, sink), отлив (reflux), отпадналост (caducity, faintness, weakness), отдръпвам се (back away, dodge, ease off, flow back, move away, move up, pull over, quail, recoil, retire, shrink away, shrink back, stand aside, stand off, step aside), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), залез (decline, eclipse, set, setting, sunset, twilight), западане (declension, drop, labefaction, lapse). (various references)

Chinese 

退潮 , 衰退 (Ebbed, Ebbing). (various references)

Czech

ustupovat, ubývat (be on the wane, decline, decrease, dwindle, sink, subside, wane, waste), odliv (ebb tide, low tide). (various references)

Danish

ebbe (low tide), faldende vande (ebb tide, fall of the water, falling tide), faldende tidevand (ebb tide, falling tide). (various references)

Dutch

eb-, eb (low tide). (various references)

Esperanto

reflui, malfluo (low tide), malflua. (various references)

Farsi 

فرونشینی , فروکش کردن (Abate, Lower, Subside), فروکش (Deflation, Letup, Refluence), جزر, افول کردن . (various references)

Finnish

pakovesi (low tide), luode (low tide, low water, north-west). (various references)

French

reflux (ebb tide). (various references)

German

Ebbe (ebb tide, low tide, tide). (various references)

Greek 

υποχωρώ (abate, back down, back out of, blench, bow, cave in, climb down, defer to, fall back, flinch, give in, give way to, recede, relent, retreat, subduce, subside, yield), άμπωτη (ebb tide 1, low tide, low water, neap tide, refluence, reflux). (various references)

Hebrew 

שפל (base, degeneration, humble, indolent, lousy, low, low down, low tide, lowliness, mean, mean-spirited, meek, minimum, miscreant, ornery, recession, scabby, scamp, shabby, sordid, vile), �"תמעטות (decrease, diminution, lessening). (various references)

Hungarian

apály (Ebb tide, ebb-tide, low tide, low water, neap), hanyatlás (decadence, decadency, decay, declension, decline, depression, deterioration, downgrade, downtrend, droop, drop, fall-off, retrogression, set back, set-back), esés (alignment, crump, descent, downfall, droop, drop, fall, falling, flop, gradient, setback, spill, tumble). (various references)

Indonesian

air surut. (various references)

Italian

riflusso (backwash, low tide, reflux). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

減退 (decline, failure, loss). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�'�"たい (decline, failure, loss, one's home unit). (various references)

Korean 

낙조. (various references)

Manx

traih-varrey (low water), mooir-hraie (low tide, low water). (various references)

Norwegian

ebbe, minke (decrease, lessen), fjære. (various references)

Pig Latin

ebbay.(various references)

Portuguese

vazante (ebb tide, falling tide, recession). (various references)

Romanian

se scurge (drain, dribble, elapse, flow, fly by, lapse, lapse away, pass, pass by, run, slip away, slip by, stream, wear out), scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, reduce, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane), reflux (Ebb tide, low tide, low water, retard of the tide, retreat), maree (flow, tide, water), fi în reflux, fi în declin (be at low ebb, decline), declin (anticlimax, consenescence, decay, declension, declination, decline, descent, downhill, fall, falling off, let down, regress, sunset, wane), decãdere (decadence, decadency, decay, declension, decline, descent, fall, shame). (various references)

Russian 

убывать (decrease, neap, recede, wane), упадок (come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, degeneration, degradation, depression, dilapidation, downgrade, down-grade, downswing, eclipse, non-event, regress, retrogression, wane), ослабевать (abate, ease up, fade out, fail, fall off, sag, slack off, weaken), отлив (ebb tide, ebb-tide, low tide, low water, refluence, reflux), морской отлив. (various references)

Scottish

traogh (drain, exhaust, subside). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

opasti (fall off, fall out, go down, slump, subside), opadanje (decline, decrease, decrement, downtrend, fall out, falling, fallout, loss, subsidence, wane, waning). (various references)

Spanish

reflujo (low tide, reflux), menguar (abate, bind off, decrease, diminish, drop, dwindle, fall, lessen, reduce, shorten, subside, wane). (various references)

Swedish

ebb (Ebb tide, low tide), avta (abate, decrease, diminish, drop off, ease, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, slacken, tail away, wane). (various references)

Thai

การล�"ลง (fall, falloff), ล�"ลง (boil down, dip, lessen, lower, roll back, slide). (various references)

Turkish

tükenip gitmek (die out, ebb away), kötüye gidiş (cancerous growth), deniz suyunun çekilmesi, düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), düşüş (collapse, comedown, cutback, decline, decrease, downgrade, drop, ebb tide, eclipse, fall, falling, purler, recession, recessional, reduction, scale down, sinking, spill, tumble), cezir (low tide, reflux), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), alçalmak (abase oneself, bastardize, derogate, descend, dip, drop, get off, go down, set, sink, stoop, subside), çekilmek (abdicate, be pulled, bolt, bow, bow out, decline, desist, draw away, draw back, draw off, dry up, edge out, give over, go out, gravitate, opt out, quit, recede, repair, resign, retire, retract, scratch, secede, stand, step aside, step down, walk out, withdraw). (various references)

Ukrainian

убувати (decrease, ooze, recede, wane), слабшати (abate, fall, impair, pink in, sink, slack, wane, weaken), спадати (neap, sag), відступати (back, back down, backtrack, blench, crawfish, deviate, digress, draw back, draw off, drop back, fall back, flinch, give ground, go back, recede, retreat, retrograde, shy, stand away, stand back, walk backward), відплив (refluence, reflux), згасати (decay, leak away). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đang trong thời kỳ suy sụp. (various references)

Welsh

treio (try), trai, distyll, adlif (flow). (various references)

recedam, recede, recedent, recedentibus, recedere, recedes, recedet, recesserat, recesseruntque, recessi, recessisse, recessisti, recessit, respiro. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ebb": ebbed, ebbet, ebbets, ebbing, ebbs. (additional references)

Words containing "ebb": blebby, cobwebbed, cobwebbier, cobwebbiest, cobwebbing, cobwebby, kebbie, kebbies, kebbock, kebbocks, kebbuck, kebbucks, nebbish, nebbishes, nebbishy, pebble, pebbled, pebbles, pebblier, pebbliest, pebbling, pebbly, rebbe, rebbes, webbed, webbier, webbiest, webbing, webbings, webby. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ebb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aabb, aibbf, bbb, Beb, bebb, debb, eab, eba, ebbe, Ebby, ebc, ebe, Ebi, ebl, ebm, ebo, Ebobo, ebt, ebu, Ebv, eby, ebz, ebzw, ecb, eeb, Efb, egb, Egba, Ehb, elb, Emb, enb, eob, epb, Erb, esb, eub, Ieb, kebb, Kebby, lebb, nebb, Obb, Sebby, yeb, Zebbi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: be.

+1 letter: abbe, babe, bleb, ebbs.

+2 letters: abbes, abbey, babel, babes, barbe, bebop, bible, blebs, bombe, bribe, cubeb, ebbed, ebbet, kebab, kebob, kibbe, rebbe, webby.

+3 letters: abbess, abbeys, babble, babels, babied, babies, barbed, barbel, barber, barbes, barbet, baubee, bauble, bawbee, bebops, bedaub, bedbug, bedumb, beebee, benumb, bibbed, bibber, bibles, blebby, bobbed, bobber, bobble, bombed, bomber, bombes, boobed, bribed, bribee, briber, bribes, bubale, bubble, buboed, buboes, bulbed, bulbel, bumble, burble, cabbed, cabbie, cobber, cobble, cobweb, cubebs, dabbed, dabber, dabble, dibbed, dibber, dibble, dobber, dubbed, dubber, ebbets, ebbing, fibbed, fibber, fobbed, fubbed, gabbed, gabber, gabble, gibbed, gibber, gibbet, gobbed, gobbet, gobble, hobbed, hobble, imbibe, jabbed, jabber, jibbed, jibber, jobbed, jobber, kebabs, kebbie, kebobs, kibbeh, kibbes, kibble, libber, lobbed, lobber, lubber, mobbed, mobber, nabbed, nabber, nibbed, nibble, nobble, nubble, pebble, pebbly, rabbet, rabble, rebbes, ribbed, ribber, robbed, robber, rubbed, rubber, rubble, sabbed, sobbed, sobber, subbed, subdeb, tabbed, tubbed, tubber, wabble, webbed, wobble, yabber.