transcription, транскрипция: [ eb ]
( ebbs, ebbing, ebbed)
1.
When the tide or the sea ebbs , its level gradually falls.
When the tide ebbs it’s a rock pool inhabited by crustaceans.
VERB : V
2.
The ebb or the ebb tide is one of the regular periods, usually two per day, when the sea gradually falls to a lower level as the tide moves away from the land.
...the spring ebb tide...
N-COUNT : usu the N
3.
If someone’s life, support, or feeling ebbs , it becomes weaker and gradually disappears. ( FORMAL )
Were there occasions when enthusiasm ebbed?
VERB : V
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Ebb away means the same as ebb .
Their popular support is ebbing away.
PHRASAL VERB : V P
4.
If someone or something is at a low ebb or at their lowest ebb , they are not being very successful or profitable.
...a time when everyone is tired and at a low ebb...
PHRASE : v-link PHR
5.
You can use ebb and flow to describe the way that something repeatedly increases and decreases or rises and falls.
...the ebb and flow of feeling and moods.
PHRASE : usu PHR of n