0 present 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:
They feel that it is an area about which everybody has forgotten and that life is ebbing out of it.
During that delay, the life blood of the industry has been ebbing away.
In the course of this period there can and must be ebbings and flowings.
The real tragedy is that the lives of some of those whom we hope will be beneficiaries are now ebbing away.
They are not ebbing and flowing, in work to-day and out of it to-morrow.
The lifeblood of the town has been ebbing away, with companies closing.
It cannot be gainsaid that public opinion is ebbing away and is not coming with us.
So here we have another summit, another crisis, confidence in the euro ebbing by the week.
