to ebb

Examples

• All

• If you can just ebb and flow with stuff, you're going to find it so much easier to take.

• My problem is that personal dynamics ebb and flow.

  Golden Exits (2018)

• All of us, we ebb and flow, right?

• And so I can ebb and flow with anything.

  Team Coco

• New fields are evolving, and jobs ebb and flow in accordance with the state of the technology in question.

  Academic text (2012)

• In any given moment, awareness can ebb and flow, can't it?

  Evan Carmichael

• Driving forces tend to ebb and flow as societal conditions change.

  Academic text (2012)

• Do you feel your relationship with God ebbs and flows?

  Ed Mylett

• The political desire to address the problem ebbs and flows, but it appears to be gaining speed.

  Academic text (2003)

• We don't need to go far in the hustle of the city where traffic ebbs and flows.

Synonyms

E

to ebb away

vsto ebb

2 5.6

To move back slowly, like water leaving a shore

is the general term used for tides, feelings, and other things

E

to ebb out

vsto ebb

1 5.6

Move back, like a tide, or become less strong over time

is the broader common term for receding in many contexts

E

to ebb off

vsto ebb

1 6.5

To flow back or become less strong slowly

is the general term covering tides, water, feelings, and other cases

E

to ebb down

vsto ebb

1 6.8

To move back and become less after rising, especially water like tides

is not limited to uses after rising and fits many gradual decreases

Antonyms

R

to rise

630 1.0

To become greater in amount or strength

I

increase

559 1.0

The extra amount added to something to make it larger

T

to tide

1 4.6

To move forward in a large steady flow

Phrasal Verbs

E

to ebb away

2 5.6

To move back slowly, like water leaving a shore

E

to ebb out

1 5.6

Move back, like a tide, or become less strong over time

E

to ebb off

1 6.5

To flow back or become less strong slowly

E

to ebb down

1 6.8

To move back and become less after rising, especially water like tides

Compounds

L

low ebb

• Informal

4 6.5

A time when energy and success are low

How Much

to disappear

∞ 1.0

to fade away

86 3.0

to recede

67 4.8

to ebb

21 5.6

to diminish

147 3.7

Surface Forms

Etymology