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| ebb | |
| 1. n. The receding movement of the tide. |  |
| The boats will go out on the ebb. | |
| 2. n. A gradual decline. | |
| 3. n. A low state; a state of depression. | |
| 4. n. A European bunting, the corn bunting (, syn. ,). | |
| 5. v. (intransitive) to flow back or recede | |
| The tides ebbed at noon. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) to fall away or decline | |
| The dying man's strength ebbed away. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb | |
| 8. v. To cause to flow back. | |
| 9. adj. low, shallow | |
| The water there is otherwise very low and ebb. (Holland) | |
