Definitions
fall away or decline
Word origin
From Middle English ebbe, from Old English ebba (“ebb, tide”), from Proto-West Germanic *abbjā, from Proto-Germanic *abjô, *abjǭ, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“off, away”), from Proto-Indo-European *apó.
Used in a sentence
“The boats will go out on the ebb.”
“Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow / Claspest the limits of morality!”
“Men come from distant parts to admire the tides of Solway, which race in at flood and retreat at ebb with a greater speed than a horse can follow.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Recede”3 letters
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