ebbtide

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Noun

ebbtide - the tide while water is flowing outebb, reflux - the outward flow of the tidetide - the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moonrising tide, flood tide, flood - the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare