ebb

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 ĕb

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The receding movement of the tide.
    — The boats will go out on the ebb.
  2. A gradual decline.
    — Thus all the treasure of our flowing years, / Our ebb of life for ever takes away.
  3. A low state; a state of depression. especially
    — Painting was then at its lowest ebb.
  4. A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
动词 v.
  1. to flow back or recede intransitive
    — The tides ebbed at noon.
  2. to fall away or decline intransitive
    — The dying man's strength ebbed away.
  3. to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb intransitive
  4. To cause to flow back. transitive
    — Parts of this town do not want a big influx of gay people and are trying to ebb it.
形容词 adj.
  1. low, shallow
    — All the sea lying betweene, is verie ebbe, full of shallowes and shelves

词形变化

ebbs plural ebbe alternative ebber comparative ebbest superlative ebbe alternative ebbs present,singular,third-person ebbing participle,present ebbed participle,past ebbed past ebbe alternative

词汇关系

反义词
flood flow
衍生词
at a low ebb ebb and flow ebbless ebb tide unebbing
相关词
neap tide

词源

词源 1
From Middle English ebbe, from Old English ebba (“ebb, tide”), from Proto-West Germanic *abbjā, from Proto-Germanic *abjô, *abjǭ, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“off, away”), from Proto-Indo-European *apó.
See also West Frisian ebbe, Dutch eb, German Ebbe, Danish ebbe, Old Norse efja (“countercurrent”), Old English af. More at of, off.
词源 2
From Middle English ebben, from Old English ebbian, from Proto-West Germanic *abbjōn (“to ebb”).
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