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Synonyms for ebb
ɛbebb
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ebbadjective
ebbnoun
The receding movement of the tide.
The tides ebbed at noon.
ebbnoun
to fall away or decline
The dying man's strength ebbed away.
ebbnoun
to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
ebbnoun
English Synonyms and Antonyms
ebb
The storm, the fever, the pain abates. Interest declines. Misfortunes may be mitigated, desires moderated, intense anger abated, population decreased, taxes reduced. We abate a nuisance, terminate a controversy, suppress a rebellion. See ALLEVIATE.
Synonyms:
abate, decline, decrease, diminish, lessen, lower, mitigate, moderate, reduce, subsideAntonyms:
aggravate, amplify, continue, develop, enhance, enlarge, extend, foment, increase, magnify, rage, raise, revivePreposition:
Abate in fury; abated by law.
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Princeton's WordNet
ebb, ebbing, wanenoun
a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
ebb, refluxverb
the outward flow of the tide
ebb, ebb away, ebb down, ebb out, ebb offverb
flow back or recede
"the tides ebbed at noon"
ebbverb
hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
ebbverb
fall away or decline
"The patient's strength ebbed away"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
ebbnoun
Synonyms:
regression, regress, retrocession, retrogression, reflux, refluence, returnebbnoun
Synonyms:
decline, decay, deterioration, degeneracyebbnoun
Synonyms:
decrease, diminution, abatement, decrement, subsidenceebbverb
ebbverb
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
ebbnoun
Synonyms:
reflux, refluence, decline, wane, deterioration, retrogressionebbverb
Synonyms:
recede, return, retire, decline, wane, deteriorate, decay
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#1104 | lower | |
#1315 | valley | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#4358 | sick | |
#4933 | decrease | |
#5420 | moderate | |
#5615 | decline | |
#10134 | decay | |
#12529 | retire | |
#18285 | mitigate | |
#21475 | diminish | |
#21815 | reflux | |
#25048 | lessen | |
#30671 | ebb | |
#40873 | abate | |
#52227 | wane | |
#52831 | eib | |
#55573 | subside | |
#63983 | recede | |
#115462 | ebbing |
How to use ebb in a sentence?
If you can imagine being physically and mentally exhausted going through a rescue and having to deal with that, when you're at your lowest ebb, you've given it all and then you find out the sad news about your father, who's your best mate -- that's really, really tough.
Sometimes it is going to ebb and flow in different ways, and sometimes you are going to flow very heavily around work, because you are getting ready to relaunch the brand and try to hit these huge milestones for a startup within two months of joining, and other times, it is end of the school year and there is the recital and the school play and da-da-da and those things are important, too.
What tends to move markets the most tends to be issues with China, these tensions with the U.S. are not going to disappear, they are just going to ebb and flow.
You shall go with me, newly-married bride,And gaze upon a merrier multitude.White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the Western Host,Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
You are in a place where the U.S. economy is a little softer, at least the data we are getting. I would argue it is still on solid footing, it is just we are in a bit of an ebb and the market is kind of ebbing with it a little bit.
Translations for ebb
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- انحسارArabic
- спадам, отливBulgarian
- odlivCzech
- traiWelsh
- ebbeDanish
- EbbeGerman
- malfluso, refluoEsperanto
- reflujo, marea, bajamar, marea bajaSpanish
- جزرPersian
- luode, laskuvesiFinnish
- reflux, décliner, refluerFrench
- ebbaWestern Frisian
- տեղատվությունArmenian
- riflussoItalian
- eb, wegebbenDutch
- fjæreNorwegian
- odpływPolish
- maré baixa, refluxo, baixa-mar, vazantePortuguese
- refluxRomanian
- ослабевать, отливRussian
- ebba, ebbSwedish
- சிறிதளவு மாறுபடும்Tamil
- cezirTurkish
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