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Definition
decline — typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed.Chapter 12 (3% in)
- 'So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth's fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky, and the life of the old earth ebb away.Chapter 11 (64% in)
There are no more uses of "ebb" in The Time Machine.
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