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Use this tag for questions about the meaning and/or usage of a particular phrase, which a dictionary cannot answer.
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What does "ebb away" here mean?
Looked up the dictionary. It says flow back. Does it mean "come back" here?
It is an agony that people here are beginning to get used to as time drags on and optimism and hope ebb away. (source)
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