Definition: the outward flow of the tide
Definition: a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
Main entry: ebb
Definition: fall away or decline
Usage: The patient's strength ebbed away
Main entry: ebb
Definition: hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
Main entry: ebb, ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out
Definition: flow back or recede
Usage: the tides ebbed at noon