EBBING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ebbing mean? 

• EBBING (noun)
  The noun EBBING has 1 sense:

1. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

  Familiarity information: EBBING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EBBING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

ebb; ebbing; wane

Hypernyms ("ebbing" is a kind of...):

decline; diminution (change toward something smaller or lower)

Derivation:

ebb (fall away or decline)

 Context examples 

In the meantime the weeks were passing, his money was ebbing low, and there was no money coming in.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was removed, loudly protesting, to the police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The red-faced man had said that the tide was ebbing through the Golden Gate.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She had lain back in her chair, with drooping eyelids and bloodless face, so that he had feared at first her journey had weighed heavily upon her, and that the strength was ebbing out of her.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)