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ebb out

v. flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon" [syn: ebb, ebb away, ebb down, ebb off] [ant: tide]

Usage examples of "ebb out".

It seemed reasonable to expect it would do that, if its strength didn't ebb out before it got that far.

When he chose, it seemed to ebb out of him, the worn silence of old trees or stones lying motionless for years.

Catti-brie understood that he was as angry and frustrated as she at their helplessness, at having to sit there and watch the life ebb out of Bruenor.

The fear was beginning to ebb out of Herewiss, little by little, when suddenly he saw someone making straight for them across the strand, not quickly, but with purpose.

I felt it ebb out of me with every fall as the chronic burning pain took over.