Usually means: Decline or reduction in strength.
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  9. ebb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  17. ebb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The receding movement of the tide.
noun:  A gradual decline.
noun:  (especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
noun:  A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
adjective:  low, shallow
verb:  (intransitive) to flow back or recede
verb:  (intransitive) to fall away or decline
verb:  (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
verb:  (transitive) To cause to flow back.

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