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Synonyms for ebb
ɛbebb
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Wiktionary
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?
(C)(P) FEAR- IS THE DRIVING FORCE WHICH FUELS THE EBB AND FLOWS OF ALL THAT IS- AMERICAN SOCIETY. IT IS GENERATIONAL, AND WILL NOT GO AWAY ANYTIME SOON BECAUSE IT IS EMBEDDED WITHIN THE FABRIC AND MINDS OF THOSE WHO ALLOW IT TO GROW AND FESTER. CANCER MAY HAVE A CURE, BUT RACISM DOES NOT.
Men of immeasurable greatness are tossed about in the ebb and flow of words.
These tensions with the U.S. are not going to disappear, they are just going to ebb and flow.
For this is Wisdom to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go
If this moment is going to be sustained, it will be sustained by artists of the global majority producing their own work, because any time a non-White artist is left to the mercy and morality of a White audience, White producer or White money, then that interest and that level of vulnerability and that level of focus is going to... ebb and flow.
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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