Definitions for ebbs

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Spelling: [eb]

IPA: /ɛb/

Ebbs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in ebbs (bbes).

Definitions for ebbs

noun

1. the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
2. a flowing backward or away; decline or decay:
3. a point of decline:

verb (used without object)

1. to flow back or away, as the water of a tide (opposed to flow).
2. to decline or decay; fade away:

Origin of ebbs

before 1000; (noun) Middle English eb(be), Old English ebba; cognate with Old Frisian ebba, Dutch eb(be), German Ebbe ebb, Old Norse efja place where water backs up; (v.) Middle English ebben

Examples for ebbs

But Cinna, comparing his happiness with the sea, forgot that the sea has its ebbs.

“I wanted to show the kind of marriage that has its ebbs and flows,” Quindlen said.

It is the daily migration of labour, the tide morning and night ebbs and flows.

Like the sea is our life for its largeness; like the sea in its ebbs and flows.

So the flood of affairs surging through the house, ebbs at her door.

If she holds till it ebbs they can clomber ashore, every man-jack of em.

The music lingers still for a moment, ebbs, and then dies away.

Twice in every day it ebbs and flows; we call this movement of the sea the tides.

Twice a day it rises, and twice a day it sinks and ebbs again all along the shore.

The ebbs and flows of the human mind are beyond the reach of astronomy.