ebb
6
6.5
- noun
- /ɛb/
:
descenso
- Teaching methods in schools have been so theoretical that production is at a low ebb.
- a low ebb
- ebb and flow
- reach a low ebb
The cyclical trend, the cyclicality is the ebb and flow within it.
- The cyclical trend, the cyclicality is the ebb and flow within it.
- We're both Christians, but we have gone through different ebbs and flows and all sorts.
- Culture and law work hand in hand to a degree in ebbs and flows.
- And so that's all kind of going back the other way now, you know, so it's just ebbs and flows.
- But being an old guy gives me the opportunity to have looked back upon time and see the ebbs and flows, the coming and going.
- Breaking the story as if those ACT breaks exist will help with your storytelling and help with the emotional ebb and flow of the episode.
- I know we, it's obvious, but if you're in a relationship with a woman, you care about women in your life, like understand the ebbs and flows of her hormones.
- You will have peaks and valleys, you will have ebbs and flows and you will lose money, but you will gain lessons from that process.
- And then it has a whole lot of ebbs and flows, micro realizations of the weirdness that don't actually matter.
- So I had just gone through these couple of years where I had an unusual ebb and flow of income because of being in Graduate School.
- But YouTube's comments go through like this ebb and flow of like lots of spam, not that much spam, lots of spam, lots of not, not that much spam.
- The business cycle is the ebb and flow and economic activity that occurs, and that's a boom and bust, a recession expansion.
- We're at an ebb in terms of public enthusiasm for action on climate change and concern over climate change.
- And and as you touched on, you know, I reached the very lowest ebb of humanity, frankly.
- We are assaulting people who are ready at their lowest ebb and we're not even concerning ourselves with the consequences that can happen.
- Our kids are going to have ebb and flow in their energy.
Examples
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Tell him my appreciation of the Japanese culture... is at a low ebb.
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My patience is at an ebb, Mr. Cameron.
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"The sea of faith was at its ebb," he said.
Academic text (2005) -
I, not so young, feeling the ebb of time;
Fiction book (2002) -
One thing that's happening is the morality of this country is on a low ebb and it's getting lower.
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We joined three others at the wheelhouse, as I felt the boat's speed ebb away.
Fiction book (1999) -
By the early 1740s, the art was at its lowest ebb.
Academic text (2015) -
You will have peaks and valleys, you will have ebbs and flows and you will lose money, but you will gain lessons from that process.
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Imperial powers have regularly succumbed to the ebb and flow of power, although in the United Kingdom's case, that took 300 years.
Academic text (2009) -
At one point in his life, he found his joy at a low ebb after losing his job.
Synonyms
10
3.9
A sudden decrease in amount, quality or rate
6
6.6
A slow decrease in size, strength, or number
5
3.8
A slow loss of brightness, sound, or strength until almost gone
4
6.7
A decrease in size, strength or importance
3
4.4
A slow fall in strength, value, or mood
1
6.7
A slow decrease in strength, amount, or intensity
1
5.2
A slow decrease in size, number, or strength
1
5.1
A period when something gets worse
1
6.0
A gradual decrease in size or strength
1
5.3
A drop in strength or level of something, like noise and excitement
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Etymology
Ebb is used for a slow drop or lessening because the word first named the tide going out. So when something is at a 'low ebb' it is like the sea has pulled back and there is less of it.