Crossword clues for ebbed
ebbed
- Petered out
- Slacked off
- Lost intensity
- Eased off
- Backed away from the shore
- Flowed away
- Gradually lessened
- Drew back, as a tide
- Drew away from shore
- Went out from the shore
- Went back, as a tide
- Underwent recession
- Underwent a recession
- Receded, as a tide
- Receded like the tide
- Receded from shore
- Gradually rolled back
- Flowed out, as the tide
- Flowed backward
- Flowed back, like the tide
- Dwindled away
- Came back from the beach?
- Went out with the waves
- Declined, as a tide
- Fell off
- Receded, as the tide
- Subsided, as the tide
- Waned
- Went out, as the tide
- Flowed back, as the tide
- Died down, like ocean waves
- Fell away
- Fell back
- Went to a lower level
- Abated, as a tide
- Faded away
- Lessened, as the tide
- Be back at bottom
- Declined to live going back and forth with daughter
- Let up
- Tapered off
- Slipped away
- Drew back, as the tide
- Dropped off
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ebb \Ebb\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ebbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ebbing.] [AS. ebbian; akin to D. & G. ebben, Dan. ebbe. See 2d Ebb.]
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To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow.
That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow.
--Pope. -
To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.
The hours of life ebb fast.
--Blackmore.Syn: To recede; retire; withdraw; decay; decrease; wane; sink; lower.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: ebb)
Usage examples of "ebbed".
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.