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Ebb Retreat Crossword Clue

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99%6Exact Match!
verb

• pull back or move away or backward

• retreat

• become faint or more distant

38%3 Tide's retreat
noun

• a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

• the outward flow of the tide

verb

• flow back or recede

• hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb

• fall away or decline

29%9 To retreat to a rural retreat from city life
verb

• live in the country and lead a rustic life

• send to the country

• suspend temporarily from college or university, in England

• give (stone) a rustic look

• lend a rustic character to

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