Synonym: decline, decrease, diminish, lessen, recede, retreat, subside, withdraw. Antonym: flood, flow. Similar words: ebbing. Meaning: [eb] n. 1. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) 2. the outward flow of the tide. v. 1. flow back or recede 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.
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(121) Other sports feared that sponsors and audiences might ebb away if the drug-takers were not tackled.
(122) These nouns are compared as they denote the regular patterned ebb and rise of accented and unaccented sounds, especially in music, speech, or verse.
(123) The music stopped as they entered and the crowd of people seemed to her confused mind to surge up to her like the roar of the sea and then ebb away, with lessening, ever-lessening sound.
(124) Though Shevchenko has continually stressed he wants to stay with Milan, speculation concerning a move to England refuses to ebb away.
(125) In China, for increase in social investment and keeping higher investment and growth rate of fixed capital, the crux is how to arouse folk investment that is being in low ebb.
(126) For instance, with the transition of the knowledge authority from the theologist and metaphysician to modern scientist, the disciplines of university have their ebb and flow accordingly.
(127) My footprints are just marks on the sand beach, fading away with the ebb and flow.
(128) Temporally, the suspended sediment concentration in the jiaojiang river estuary neap - spring tidal cycle and flood - ebb fluctuations.
(129) After the May 4th new culture movement there come the cross swords, ebb and flow, repulsion and crasis of the economic ethic between capitalism and socialism.
(130) Fan is not too willing to discuss this section of ebb tide time.
(131) Fresh orders for the world's shipyards are at a low ebb.
(132) The economy of the country was at a low ebb.
(133) While your romantic inclinations are definitely at low ebb, you luck in relationships isn't.
(134) It took more than 10, 000 years of domestication for humans to create the vast biodiversity in our food supply that we're now watching ebb away.
(135) Ironically, relations between British and American Intelligence in late 1950's were at their lowest postwar ebb.
(136) Left to their own devices markets are unlikely to deliver the gradualism desired by most governments and faith in efficient pricing is at a low ebb after the credit crisis.
(137) The low ebb hour that Chinese man fails in them,[sentencedict.com] what expect a woman is placatory.
(138) Shang shi and the Diary of Madam Shafei was produced in the may 4 ebb tide.
(139) Known as the "ace of aces" for shooting down dozens of German enemy planes, Rickenbacker took command of the squadron soon after morale hit its lowest ebb.
(140) Ebb tide is tranquil, not like tide, when turbulent waves send spray spitting in every direction.
(141) Fresh orders for the world's shipyards at a low ebb.
(142) The ebb will fetch off what the tide brings in.
(143) "Timewave zero" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase in the universe's interconnectedness, or organised complexity, over time.
(144) U.S. power and influence are at low ebb in the region.http://sentencedict.com/ebb.html
(145) The ebb has made a good while; our stores should be uncovered.
(146) After Daoguang, the ancient dreamlike novel gradually ebb tide, untilwithdraws from the historical wu - si period completely.
(147) There is no firm demarcation between dimensions, for they ebb and flow in a wave pattern and interpenetrate each other to a certain degree.
More similar words: ebbing.