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RECALL BEFORE REVEAL

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To decline or gradually diminish.

verb

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ebb

Their enthusiasm began to ebb after the third delay.
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After the first week of a neighborhood storytelling project, excitement began to ebb as volunteers encountered the slower work of editing recordings.
From Watching a Project Change.
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