Definition: the outward flow of the tide
Definition: a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
Similar words: decline, diminution
Definition: change toward something smaller or lower
Synonyms: ebb
Definition: fall away or decline
Usage: The patient's strength ebbed away
Similar words: recede
Definition: become faint or more distant
Usage: the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older
Synonyms: ebb
Definition: hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
Similar words: beleaguer, besiege, circumvent, surround, hem in
Definition: surround so as to force to give up
Usage: The Turks besieged Vienna
Synonyms: ebb, ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out
Definition: flow back or recede
Usage: the tides ebbed at noon