Definition of "ebbed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of ebb. (verb)

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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."
• "I lay still with eyes closed until the pain ebbed away a bit and my memory of the night before came back."
• "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."