All 3 Uses of
ebb
in
Gone with the Wind
- Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- The excitement of her thoughts had abruptly ebbed, leaving her white and shaking.†
Chpt 4.33
- The music stopped as they entered and the crowd of people seemed to her confused mind to surge up to her like the roar of the sea and then ebb away, with lessening, ever-lessening sound.†
Chpt 5.53
Definition:
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(ebb) decline -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide