The lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide.
synonym: low tide.
Roget 804:
poverty,
indigence,
penury,
pauperism,
destitution,
want;
need,
neediness;
lack,
necessity,
privation,
distress,
difficulties,
wolf at the door.
bad circumstances,
poor circumstances,
need circumstances,
embarrassed circumstances,
reduced circumstances,
straightened circumstances;
slender means,
narrow means;
straits;
hand to mouth existence,
res angusta domi [Lat.],
low water,
impecuniosity.
beggary;
mendicancy,
mendicity†;
broken fortune,
loss of fortune;
insolvency
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
empty pocket,
empty purse;
light purse;
beggarly account of empty boxes.
[poor people]
poor man,
pauper,
mendicant,
mumper†,
beggar,
starveling;
pauvre diable [Fr.];
fakir†,
schnorrer†;
homeless person.
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Roget 640:
insufficiency;
inadequacy,
inadequateness;
incompetence
etc.
(impotence)
158;
deficiency
etc.
(incompleteness)
53;
imperfection
etc.
651;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
paucity;
stint;
scantiness
etc.
(smallness)
32;
none to spare,
bare subsistence.
scarcity,
dearth;
want,
need,
lack,
poverty,
exigency;
inanition,
starvation,
famine,
drought.
dole,
mite,
pittance;
short allowance,
short commons;
half rations;
banyan day.
emptiness,
poorness
etc.
adj.;
depletion,
vacancy,
flaccidity;
ebb tide;
low water;
a beggarly account of empty boxes"
[Romeo and Juliet];
indigence
etc.
804;
insolvency
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
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Roget 207:
lowness
etc.
adj.;
debasement,
depression,
prostration
etc.
(horizontal)
213;
depression
etc.
(concave)
252.
molehill;
lowlands;
basement floor,
ground floor;
rez de chaussee [Fr.];
cellar;
hold,
bilge;
feet,
heels.
low water;
low tide,
ebb tide,
neap tide,
spring tide.
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Roget 340:
dryness
etc.
adj.;
siccity†,
aridity,
drought,
ebb tide,
low water.
exsiccation†,
desiccation;
arefaction†,
dephlegmation†,
drainage;
drier.
[chemical subs. which renders dry]
desiccative,
dessicator.
[device to render dry]
dessicator;
hair drier,
clothes drier,
gas drier,
electric drier;
vacuum oven,
drying oven,
kiln;
lyophilizer.
clothesline.
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Dutch: ebtij, eb, laagtij, laagwater
Polish: odpływ