WordNet Search - 3.1
-
WordNet home page
-
Glossary
-
Help
Word to search for:
Display Options:
(Select option to change)
Hide Example Sentences
Hide Glosses
Show Frequency Counts
Show Database Locations
Show Lexical File Info
Show Lexical File Numbers
Show Sense Keys
Show Sense Numbers
Show all
Hide all
Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Noun
S:
(n)
ebb
,
ebbing
,
wane
(a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number))
S:
(n)
ebb
,
reflux
(the outward flow of the tide)
Verb
S:
(v)
ebb
,
ebb away
,
ebb down
,
ebb out
,
ebb off
(flow back or recede)
"the tides ebbed at noon"
S:
(v)
ebb
(hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb)
direct hypernym
/
inherited hypernym
/
sister term
S:
(v)
besiege
,
beleaguer
,
surround
,
hem in
,
circumvent
(surround so as to force to give up)
"The Turks besieged Vienna"
S:
(v)
blockade
,
seal off
(impose a blockade on)
S:
(v)
ebb
(hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb)
sentence frame
S:
(v)
ebb
(fall away or decline)
"The patient's strength ebbed away"