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# ebbing

«ebbing» in Mova's school dictionary: **going back out, getting less** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form of ebb (ebb, ebbs, ebbed, ebbing); adjective (the ebbing tide)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ebbing means going back out, getting less. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ebbing/#m1)

2) An ebbing tide is a sea going out from the shore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ebbing/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, the Jewel of the Ebbing Tide is a gem that makes the sea go back out

### examples

- The ebbing tide left shells on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ebbing/#x1)
- Her fear was ebbing away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ebbing/#x2)
- The boat floated on the ebbing sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ebbing/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ebbing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ebbing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.