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ebbedverbpast tense of ebb to become worse or of less valuethe fortunes of the town slowly ebbed as factory after textile factory closed atrophied, crumbled, decayed, declined, degenerated, descended, deteriorated, devolved, regressed, retrograded, rotted, sank(or sunk), worsened abated, de-escalated, diminished, downsized, dwindled, receded, wanedbroke down, corrupted, decomposed, degraded, dilapidated, disintegrated, moldered, putrefiedsoured, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt)lessened, lowered, reduceddebilitated, undermineddrooped, failed, fell, flagged, lagged, languished, ran down, sagged, slipped, wasted (away), weakened, wilted went to pot, went to seed(or ran to seed) ameliorated, improved, meliorated bettered, upgradedenhanced, enriched, fortified, heightened, intensified, strengthenedadvanced, developed, marched, proceeded, progressed to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe howling winds ebbed as the hurricane moved into the interior abated, declined, decreased, de-escalated, died (away or down or out), diminished, drained (away), dropped (off), dwindled, eased, fell, fell away, lessened, let up, lowered, moderated, palled, phased down, ratcheted (down)also racheted (down), receded, relented, remitted, shrank(or shrunk), subsided, tapered, tapered off, waned compressed, condensed, constricted, contractedevaporated, faded (away), frittered (away), gave out, melted (away), petered (out), tailed (off), vanishedslackened, slowed (down)alleviated, relaxedflagged, sank(or sunk), weakenedcaved (in), collapsed, deflated accumulated, ballooned, built, burgeoned(also bourgeoned), enlarged, escalated, expanded, grew, increased, intensified, mounted, mushroomed, picked up, rose, snowballed, soared, swelled, waxed appeared, emerged, showed upblew up, distended, elongated, lengthened |