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noun
- The receding movement of the tide.
- A gradual decline
- low state, state of depression
- The European bunting
Translations: - Dutch: eb , ebbe
- French: reflux
- German: Ebbe
- Italian: riflusso
- Spanish: reflujo
verb
- flow back or recede
- the tides ebbed at noon
- fall away or decline
- The dying man's strength ebbed away
- fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
Translations: adjective
- low, shallow
- The water there is otherwise very low and ebb. (Holland)
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