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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ebb .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Once again the tide of guests ebbed from the Big House, and more than one lunch and dinner found only the two men and Paula at the table.
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I lay still with eyes closed until the pain ebbed away a bit and my memory of the night before came back.
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But as I looked the waves began to ebb – and they ebbed as swiftly as, four years ago, they rolled in – ebbed out and out, to the gulf; and the Glen lay before me, beautiful and green, with a rainbow spanning Rainbow Valley – a rainbow of such splendid colour that it dazzled me – and I woke.
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Once again the tide of guests ebbed from the Big House, and more than one lunch and dinner found only the two men and Paula at the table.
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That has kind of ebbed and flowed over the trial, how coordinated the defenses are.
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The combat ebbed away from Leo, and Dar Hyal and Hancock beset Dick.
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Oppression sat heavily upon them; the lightness of their natures had ebbed out of them; they were slack and absent-minded in their service, and they whispered gloomily to one another in the far end of the car next to the kitchen.
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He ebbed away like a shadow through the open French windows.
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So long as he walked four miles an hour, he pumped that blood, willy-nilly, to the surface; but now it ebbed away and sank down into the recesses of his body.
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Illness came upon him down in San Francisco, and his splendid life ebbed slowly out as he sat in his big easy-chair, in the Commercial Hotel, the "Yukoner's home."
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