Flow back or recede

Usage examples of ebbing.

The liquid looked to be emerging from at least two of the tunnels, and slowly ebbing out of the others.

As Isaac watched, he saw the Weaver being forced back, its energy always ebbing and flowing, moving like a vicious wind, but gradually retreating.

The days are cooler this week, a brief ebbing of the relentless summer.

Bennet about my progress, and I could sense their ebbing confidence as, day after day, I told them of my failure.

I to see where the track led in a darkness only lifted slightly by a moon which occasionally peeped from behind the clouds, and I let my mind wander over the evening, trying to recapture that feeling that had been mine so recently and which I felt, with the greatest of sadness, to be ebbing slowly away.

Marius goes all posh and manly at this juncture ('Towards morning, I took her again'), with much Kwan-goan rambling about water, femininity, ebbings, fluxes.

Nor was this the only such occasion, for in later Years came news of a Battle won through Alchemical cozening in Hindoostan, and other Ebbings and Flowings I’ll not tediously enumerate, as you are their Author.