0 past simple and past participle of ebb --
1 When the sea or tide ebbs, it moves away from the coast and falls to a lower level. --
2 If a physical or emotional feeling ebbs, it becomes less strong or disappears: --
Moreover, the very fact that the old industries have ebbed away has caused the means for carrying them on to be woefully neglected.
I appreciate that the outbreaks of whooping cough have ebbed and flowed over the years.
We shall help to raise expectations which, fortunately, have ebbed over the past two years.
The tide of battle has ebbed and flowed with varying success to either side.
I think it behoves us to look at the reasons why that mutual confidence has ebbed away in the intervening 30 years.
The advantages which we once enjoyed in supplying shipping services have long since ebbed away and our fleet has shrunk accordingly.
They must have thought that somehow or other the miners' fighting spirit had ebbed away, but the strike is now on.
With respect to participation, for example, we observed that the advantage of middle-class identification ebbed as members of the parental generation moved into retirement.
