ebb

IPA: ˈɛb

The receding movement of the tide.
A gradual decline.
(especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).

(intransitive) to flow back or recede
(intransitive) to fall away or decline
(intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
(transitive) To cause to flow back.

Examples of "ebb" in Sentences

The tide has the ebb and the flow.
Prices stutter as fiscal cliff hopes ebb.
Ebb is the blubber brain that flows the lead Flow.
"It is vat you call ebb," said the French captain.
That stated the end of the decade saw her career ebb.
The current and ebb tide carried the ships towards the bridge.
The fortunes of the Cochin royal family were at the lowest ebb.
The events marked the low ebb for the Dominican mission in Wanjin.
"What made you try the South Channel in ebb tide and an inshore wind?"
This point, or ebb, is called the uncanny valley - see the chart below.
Then the pearl of ebb was thrown into the sea again, and the water sank.
The tidal current flows southward on the flood and northward on the ebb.
As the tides ebb and flow, the figures are revealed and submerged by the sea.
But I also hear what you say about blogging having a certain ebb-and-flow energy to it.
My appreciation for Joe Biden has been subject to a certain ebb and flow over the years.
During that period, which dates from the founding of the journal Annales in 1929, a succession of eminent French scholars taught the history profession to turn its back on politics and to contemplate the long-term ebb and flow of currents running deep beneath the frothy stuff of battles and elections.