Synonyms of the word

ebbing

• v. present participle of ebb.
• n. The action of something that ebbs.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

diminution

• n. A lessening, decrease or reduction.
• n. The act or process of making diminutive.
• n. (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.

ebb

• n. The receding movement of the tide.
• n. A gradual decline.
• n. A low state; a state of depression.
• n. A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syn. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
• v. (intransitive) to flow back or recede.
• v. (intransitive) to fall away or decline.
• v. (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the…
• v. (transitive) To cause to flow back.
• adj. low, shallow.

wane

• n. A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
• n. The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively…
• n. (literary) The end of a period.
• n. (woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
• v. (intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
• v. (intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
• v. (intransitive, astronomy) Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where…
• v. (intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.
• n. (Scotland, slang) A child.
• n. (chiefly Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A house or dwelling.