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Exact Match:

ebb

the outward flow of the tide

a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

fall away or decline; "The patient's strength ebbed away"

hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb

flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon"

Synonyms:

• abate,
• ablate,
• advance,
• ascend,
• back,
• back up,
• bate,
• be eaten away,
• budge,
• calm,
• calm down,
• catabasis,
• cease,
• cessation,
• change,
• change place,
• circle,
• climb,
• collapse,
• comedown,
• consume,
• consume away,
• corrode,
• course,
• crash,
• crumble,
• dead set,
• dead stand,
• dead stop,
• deadlock,
• debasement,
• decadence,
• decadency,
• deceleration,
• declension,
• declination,
• decline,
• decline and fall,
• decrease,
• decrescendo,
• deformation,
• degeneracy,
• degenerateness,
• degeneration,
• degradation,
• deliquesce,
• demotion,
• depravation,
• depravedness,
• depreciation,
• derogation,
• descend,
• descent,
• deterioration,
• devolution,
• die,
• die away,
• die down,
• diminish,
• diminuendo,
• direct tide,
• dive,
• downtrend,
• downturn,
• downward mobility,
• downward trend,
• drift away,
• drop,
• drop off,
• dwindle,
• dwindling,
• dying,
• dying down,
• ease off,
• ebb and flow,
• ebb tide,
• ebbing,
• effeteness,
• erode,
• fade,
• fade away,
• fading,
• fail,
• failing,
• failure,
• failure of nerve,
• fall,
• fall away,
• fall off,
• falling-off,
• flood,
• flood tide,
• flow,
• flow back,
• flow in,
• flow out,
• flush,
• flux,
• flux and reflux,
• full stop,
• full tide,
• get over,
• go,
• go around,
• go away,
• go down,
• go downhill,
• go off,
• go round,
• go sideways,
• gush,
• gyrate,
• halt,
• high tide,
• high water,
• hit a slump,
• hit rock bottom,
• hit the skids,
• involution,
• issue,
• languish,
• lapse,
• lessen,
• let up,
• lock,
• loss of tone,
• low tide,
• low water,
• lull,
• lunar tide,
• make,
• melt away,
• moderate,
• molder,
• mount,
• move,
• move away,
• move off,
• move over,
• neap,
• neap tide,
• opposite tide,
• pacify,
• peter out,
• plummet,
• plunge,
• pour,
• progress,
• pull away,
• quiesce,
• quiet,
• quieten,
• reach the depths,
• recede,
• refluence,
• reflux,
• regress,
• regression,
• regurgitate,
• relent,
• remission,
• retire,
• retreat,
• retrocede,
• retrocession,
• retrogradation,
• retrograde,
• retrogress,
• retrogression,
• rip,
• riptide,
• rise,
• rotate,
• run,
• run down,
• run low,
• rush,
• sag,
• set,
• shift,
• shrink,
• sink,
• slacken,
• slide,
• slip,
• slippage,
• slowdown,
• slump,
• soar,
• solar tide,
• soothe,
• spin,
• spring tide,
• stand,
• stand off,
• standstill,
• stillstand,
• stir,
• stop,
• stream,
• subside,
• subsidence,
• surge,
• surge back,
• tail off,
• thalassometer,
• tidal amplitude,
• tidal current,
• tidal current chart,
• tidal flow,
• tidal range,
• tide,
• tide chart,
• tide gate,
• tide gauge,
• tide race,
• tide rip,
• tidewater,
• tideway,
• touch bottom,
• tranquilize,
• travel,
• trend,
• wane,
• waning,
• waste,
• waste away,
• wear,
• wear away,
• whirl,
• widen the distance,
• withdraw