Synonyms of ebbing

ebbing 1 of 3

noun

as in deterioration

a gradual sinking and wasting away of mind or body

seniors who stay active can keep at bay some of the inevitable ebbing of the memory that comes with advanced years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deterioration
• weakening
• decay
• decline
• exhaustion
• decaying
• degeneration
• enfeeblement
• descent
• debilitation
• declension
• atrophy
• regression
• relapse
• flagging
• setback
• drooping
• limping

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improvement
• recovery
• rehabilitation
• revitalization
• strengthening
• recuperation
• rally
• progress
• comeback
• invigoration
• snapback
• rejuvenation
• rejuvenescence

ebbing

2 of 3

adjective

as in waning

Related Words

• waning
• subsiding
• dying (down)
• abating
• moderating
• dying
• passing
• letting up
• lapsing
• ending
• closing
• stopping
• ceasing
• finishing
• concluding
• expiring
• terminating
• winding up
• quitting
• desisting
• discontinuing
• leaving off

Dissimilar Words

• remaining
• residual
• leftover
• lingering
• lasting
• abiding
• enduring
• persisting
• continuing
• holding up
• keeping up
• biding
• perduring
• holding on
• running on

ebbing

3 of 3

verb

present participle of ebb

1

as in deteriorating

to become worse or of less value

the fortunes of the town slowly ebbed as factory after textile factory closed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deteriorating
• crumbling
• worsening
• descending
• declining
• diminishing
• sinking
• degenerating
• rotting
• decaying
• devolving
• weakening
• regressing
• atrophying
• waning
• retrograding
• dwindling
• disintegrating
• receding
• falling
• sagging
• slipping
• going to pot
• going to seed
• decomposing
• downsizing
• reducing
• souring
• putrefying
• degrading
• abating
• undermining
• corrupting
• moldering
• lessening
• debilitating
• dilapidating
• languishing
• lagging
• drooping
• spoiling
• flagging
• lowering
• de-escalating
• wilting
• failing
• wasting (away)
• running down
• breaking down

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improving
• ameliorating
• intensifying
• upgrading
• strengthening
• bettering
• enhancing
• meliorating
• heightening
• proceeding
• enriching
• developing
• progressing
• advancing
• fortifying
• marching

2

as in subsiding

to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually

the howling winds ebbed as the hurricane moved into the interior

Synonyms & Similar Words

• subsiding
• decreasing
• diminishing
• declining
• falling
• shrinking
• vanishing
• easing
• waning
• dwindling
• receding
• tapering
• weakening
• moderating
• lessening
• relenting
• dying (away or down or out)
• dropping (off)
• lowering
• evaporating
• draining (away)
• falling away
• abating
• tapering off
• ratcheting (down)
• remitting
• palling
• racheting (down)
• letting up
• collapsing
• phasing down
• de-escalating
• slackening
• contracting
• compressing
• melting (away)
• constricting
• fading (away)
• condensing
• slowing (down)
• alleviating
• relaxing
• frittering (away)
• tailing (off)
• flagging
• sinking
• petering (out)
• giving out
• deflating
• caving (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• increasing
• rising
• growing
• swelling
• expanding
• building
• intensifying
• soaring
• mounting
• escalating
• accumulating
• burgeoning
• enlarging
• emerging
• appearing
• picking up
• mushrooming
• snowballing
• waxing
• ballooning
• showing up
• lengthening
• blowing up
• distending
• elongating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ebbing

Noun

As forcible mobilisation grows to fill Ukraine’s ebbing ranks, so will anger at the presidency and military. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

What's more, CEOs say there are no signs of consumer demand ebbing. — Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026

Perplexed, Smith texted her friend Jackie Caplan-Auerbach to see if the Western Washington University seismologist might know if this odd ebbing and flowing could be the result of a nearby landslide. — Megan I. Gannon, Scientific American, 6 May 2026

Those who feel their power ebbing, however, may bluster and bellow. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2026

Any ebbing of drone strikes could be deceptive, with Iran amassing them for another swarming assault. — Mikhail Alexseev, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026

In that period, with the Covid pandemic ebbing, thousands were detained and sent home. — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025

Verb

The autocracies are surging, and democracies ebbing. — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

That number has fluctuated from a high of 115,000 in May to a low of about 16,000 on the day before this column was published, ebbing and flowing as tickets were purchased, new batches were released and FIFA (maybe) pulled back others. — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 10 June 2026

The emergency itself seems to be ebbing. — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 2 June 2026

An outbreak forced farmers and commercial producers to slaughter entire broods of egg-laying hens, but ebbing cases in the second half of last year helped restore egg supplies, said Mark Jordan, the executive director of agricultural research firm LEAP Market Analytics. — ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026

The effects of its costly price war with T-Mobile seem to be ebbing. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026

They wed in September 2021, in the ebbing months of the pandemic. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 Jan. 2026

The state’s political appetite to keep transitioning away from oil has been clearly ebbing as residents balk at the cost of everything in California, most notably the chronically high cost of gasoline and the periodic spikes during a hiccup in production. — Tom Philp, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026

Daylight was ebbing as rescuers set up. — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026