Dictionary Entry
ebb
ebb is a 3-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The European bunting. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The European bunting.
- 2noun
The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb.
- 3noun
The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay.
- 4intransitive verb
To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow.
- 5intransitive verb
To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.
- 6transitive verb
To cause to flow back.
- 7adjective
Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.
- 8noun
the outward flow of the tide
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- 9noun
a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- 10verb
fall away or decline
"The patient's strength ebbed away"
- 11verb
hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
- 12verb
flow back or recede
"the tides ebbed at noon"
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