ebbed

/ɛbd/

ebbed adjective: having receded, or reduced in amount, intensity, or importance; diminished. Also the simple past and past participle of ebb.

Adjective

ebbed

Having receded, or reduced in amount, intensity, or importance; diminished.
- And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared, by being lacked.1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
- But now, like the ebbed finances of one out of place, every thing seems to hang about it lose and empty.1795, Charles Este, A Journey in the Year 1793, page 109

ebbed is also the simple past and past participle of ebb.

They flushed hotly as they met by chance and their hands touched in the slack clasp of an ebbed friendship.1917 January, Leonora Orem Rocheleau, “The Great Equation”, in The Mother's Magazine, volume 12, number 1, page 41:
My first clear—my first new memory is of waking, slowly, so slowly, with the languor of a fever patient whose crisis is past, in an ebbed, remote lucidity as unfamiliar as the feel of sheets.2016, Sylvia Kelso, Source, page 502:

What does ebbed mean?: Ebbed means having receded, or reduced in amount, intensity, or importance; diminished.
How do you use ebbed in a sentence?: They flushed hotly as they met by chance and their hands touched in the slack clasp of an ebbed friendship.
What part of speech is ebbed?: Ebbed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce ebbed?: Ebbed is pronounced /ɛbd/.

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