to bottom
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4.2
- verb
- /ˈbɑːtəm/
:
tocar fondo
- Certainly, for a team that bottomed out last year, the future seems bright.
The point is the chip sector recession was a bottoming process.
- The point is the chip sector recession was a bottoming process.
Examples
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From a peak of around 11,000 in the early 1980s, enrollments declined dramatically, bottoming out at just 1,300 in the late 1990s.
Academic text (2007) -
After struggling to pay my bills for months, I finally bottomed out and decided to seek financial advice.
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A month after the stock market crash, the market bottomed out and began to make a recovery.
Blog text (5) -
The unemployment rate bottomed six months later in March 2007 at 4.4 percent.
Blog text (6) -
Now, California's Legislative Analyst's Office says the state may be bottoming, and there is reason to hope.
Blog text (21) -
Second, the market has benefited from the sense that it has finally bottomed out, which buoyed consumer confidence.
Blog text (22) -
At the same time, the water's salinity continued to drop, eventually bottoming out at about 30 grams per liter.
Academic text (1996) -
The team's performance reached a low point when they bottomed out with five consecutive losses.
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He realized he had bottomed out in his career after receiving his third rejection letter in a row.
Synonyms
22
4.8
To reach the lowest point in your life before you begin to get better
21
5.1
Reach the lowest point after a time of trouble
11
5.8
To reach the lowest point before starting to get better
To fall to the lowest point in a situation, for example in money or confidence
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
22
4.8
To reach the lowest point in your life before you begin to get better
- Informal
3
7.5
Use the least good options because nothing better is left
- Informal
A late action that deals with a problem only after it has happened
- Informal
To risk all your money because you are sure something will happen
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Informal
10
7.4
The last part of the final inning in baseball when the home team bats, a final chance to win
- Offensive
6
7.7
A person who gains from other people's problems by taking advantage of them
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6.5
An animal, often a fish, that lives on the bottom of rivers or lakes and eats dead plants and animals
- Specialized
A slow, cold process that makes alcohol in beer where yeast settles to the bottom, used to make lager beers
- Specialized
A yeast that sinks to the bottom of a beer tank and makes lager beer
A cheaper model in a product range that has lower quality and is chosen to save money
- NSFW
Influence from people in a community, sometimes using sexual appeal to sway decisions
- Specialized
A very small particle created in particle experiments that is much heavier than an electron
- Specialized
A disease caused by a fungus that makes the bottom leaves of plants rot first
- Specialized
A fungus that makes the lower parts of lettuce and other plants rot
- Specialized
A sheet of copper fixed to a ship's bottom to stop barnacles and sea life
- Literature
A nickname for the United States government office that deals with other countries
- Specialized
A glass container with a round body and a narrow neck used for heating or mixing chemicals
How Low
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb bottom (to reach the lowest point) comes from the idea of hitting the 'bottom' of a situation; when things 'bottom out' they reach their lowest level before starting to rise. That is why we use bottom to mean the lowest point.