Synonyms for ebb
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : eb |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɛb |
Top 10 synonyms for ebb Other synonyms for the word ebb
- abatement
- backflow
- decay
- decrease
- degeneration
- depreciation
- deterioration
- diminution
- drop
- dwindling
- fade away
- fading away
- fall
- flag
- flagging
- flow back
- go out
- going out
- languish
- lessen
- lessening
- let up
- low tide
- low water
- melt
- moderate
- outward flow
- peter out
- petering out
- recede
- recession
- refluence
- reflux
- relent
- retire
- retreat
- retrocede
- retrocession
- retroflux
- shrink
- shrinkage
- sink
- sinking
- slacken
- slackening
- subsidence
- sweep
- wane
- waning
- weaken
- weakening
- withdraw
- withdrawal
Définition of ebb
Origin :- Old English ebba "ebb, low tide," perhaps from Proto-Germanic *abjon (cf. Old Frisian ebba, Old Saxon ebbiunga, Middle Dutch ebbe, Dutch eb, German Ebbe), from *ab-, from PIE root *apo- "off, away" (see apo-). Figurative sense of "decline, decay" is c.1400.
- noun regression; decline
- verb subside; decline
- He acquired a general knowledge of the ebb and flow of popular stocks.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- And with those words his charity towards Spurling began to ebb.
- Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson
- And again and again fell the word, like the ebb of a dying sea.
- Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
- On the ebb it'll snake you out into the breakers sure as I'm settin' here tellin' you.
- Extract from : « The Woman-Haters » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- It was like the ebb of a broken wave to those who had heard the sea.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
- He was in the slack water of the soul, when the ebb is spent, before the tide has begun to flow.
- Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
- In this wise they came at length to Greenwich on the last of the ebb.
- Extract from : « The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series » by Rafael Sabatini
- The crystal jewels which flash fire, and govern the ebb and flow of the tide.
- Extract from : « Japanese Fairy World » by William Elliot Griffis
- Ebb and flow and flood-tide have become as difficult as Sanskrit synonyms for me.
- Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey
- It is nigh flood, and we shall want all the ebb to take us round the Caskets.
- Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever
Antonyms for ebb
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