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ebbingnoun a gradual sinking and wasting away of mind or bodyseniors who stay active can keep at bay some of the inevitable ebbing of the memory that comes with advanced years debilitation, decay, decaying, declension, decline, degeneration, descent, deterioration, enfeeblement, weakening atrophyexhaustiondrooping, flagging, limpingregression, relapse, setback comeback, improvement, rally, recovery, recuperation, rehabilitation, revitalization, snapback invigoration, strengtheningprogressrejuvenation, rejuvenescence to become worse or of less valuethe fortunes of the town slowly ebbed as factory after textile factory closed atrophying, crumbling, decaying, declining, degenerating, descending, deteriorating, devolving, regressing, retrograding, rotting, sinking, worsening abating, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, receding, waningbreaking down, corrupting, decomposing, degrading, dilapidating, disintegrating, moldering, putrefyingsouring, spoilinglessening, lowering, reducingdebilitating, underminingdrooping, failing, falling, flagging, lagging, languishing, running down, sagging, slipping, wasting (away), weakening, wilting going to pot, going to seed(or running to seed) ameliorating, improving, meliorating bettering, upgradingenhancing, enriching, fortifying, heightening, intensifying, strengtheningadvancing, developing, marching, proceeding, progressing to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe howling winds ebbed as the hurricane moved into the interior abating, declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, falling, falling away, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down)also racheting (down), receding, relenting, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingevaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishingslackening, slowing (down)alleviating, relaxingflagging, sinking, weakeningcaving (in), collapsing, deflating accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing appearing, emerging, showing upblowing up, distending, elongating, lengthening |