| 单词 | to ebb and flow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ebb and flow a. intransitive. To flow back or recede, as the water of the sea or a tidal river: frequent in phrase, to ebb and flow. Also with away, down, off, out. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > change in level of water > [verb (intransitive)] > recede or subside ebbOE wanec1290 withdrawa1300 run?a1425 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > types of tide [verb (intransitive)] > ebb falleOE ebbOE wanec1290 reflow1429 to go out1595 to run out1608 refloat1632 OE Genesis 1413 Lago ebbade, sweart under swegle. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 161 Þe sæ floweð and ebbeð. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1216 The se, aftir the tydes certayn, Ebbes and flowes. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 425 The se wes ebbit [1489 Adv. ebbyt] sa. a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 223 The see wase Ebbyd. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 214 The Sea will ebb and flow . View more context for this quotation 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. vi. 86 In some narrow seas..the sea seven times a day ebbs and flowes. 1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 121 Ships..may lie afloat, and not have the Water ebb'd away from them. 1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage v. 59 The water might ebb another fathom. 1855 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (1860) ix. §429 The tides ebbed and flowed in it. < as lemmas |
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