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Flood's counterpart
Answer for the clue "Flood's counterpart ", 3 letters:
ebb
Alternative clues for the word ebb
Word definitions for ebb in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ebb \Ebb\, n. [AS. ebba; akin to Fries. ebba, D. eb, ebbe, Dan. & G. ebbe, Sw. ebb, cf. Goth. ibuks backward; prob. akin to E. even.] The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood ; as, the boats ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
low, shallow n. 1 The receding movement of the tide. 2 A gradual decline. 3 A low state; a state of depression. 4 A European bunting, (taxlink Emberiza miliaria species noshow=1). v 1 to flow back or recede 2 to fall away or decline 3 to fish with stakes ...
Usage examples of ebb.
He noted the health of the plants in the aeroponics lab, sketching their leaves and marking the ebb and flow of various diseases.
They passed Capel Street bridge and the Inspector saw that the tide on the Liffey was beginning to ebb.
The fifty ducats per month, which were sent me from Venice, were insufficient, for the money I had to spend on my carriage, my lodging, my servant, and my dress brought me down to the lowest ebb, and I did not care to appeal to anyone.
Once, as he put his horse to an earthern bank that dyked farmland from the marsh, he saw the white, fretting line of waves far to the east, and, beyond it, a dark shape in the night that was a moored ship waiting for the ebb.
Her horror had ebbed, over the days, leaving her with crawling skin and a torrent of ideas.
A hundred different manically cheerful tunes sounded from a hundred engines and organs, an unsettling cacophony that ebbed and flowed around them.
And now after the guilt and the uncertainty had ebbed away, after the atavistic disgust and fear had gone, leaving only a nervous, very deep affection, his lover had been taken from him.
He looked up into the darkening sky, the stars dim to him from all the clotted light that surrounded him, that ebbed through the glass below his body.
Isaac would try to negotiate by the ghost image that slowly ebbed from his eyes.
It sounded subdued again, as if its energy had ebbed from it during the journey through the planes of the web.
When the Indian woman told how she had first crossed the path of Macdonald, the color flamed into the cheeks of the Irish girl, but as the story progressed, the blood ebbed even from her lips.
The surge of disgust with which Sheba had broken her engagement to marry Macdonald ebbed away as the weeks passed.
Her strength ebbed, and the hinges of her knees gave unexpectedly beneath her.
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.