to bottom out
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5.8
- phrasal verb
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tocar fondo
- We just kind of bottomed out and turned sideways.
So I, as he says, bottomed out in English.
- So I, as he says, bottomed out in English.
- So if microplastics cause sterility, then Western fertility will bottom out at zero, OK?
- Darion's stomach bottomed out as Bryce Quinlan swept through the doorway.
- And the other train of thought is that the stock market is most likely to bottom out well before the real estate market.
- And when my sleep is dysregulated, then my ability to to metabolize glucose, like bottoms out and it's terrible the next day.
- But, you know, are, are we headed in the right direction or, you know, have we yet to bottom out?
- But the good news is that when it bottoms out, it doesn't have that same kind of mush to it.
- I want to know I, I, I think there, you know, if, if the FTX stuff could bottom out, if all the crypto shoes could drop fine.
- My biggest fear is that is sort of bottoming out at that plateau of comfortable complacency, if you will.
- But then when, when change happens, when you bought them out and I go, OK, so you have to bottom out.
Examples
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So it might start bottoming out at some point, but still, it's good news at the moment.
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Ubisoft's entry to the rhythm game race is somewhat late, since the peripheral-based market effectively bottomed out.
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And the other train of thought is that the stock market is most likely to bottom out well before the real estate market.
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The housing market here bottomed out earlier this year, and home values have been rising ever since.
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A month after the stock market crash, the market bottomed out and began to make a recovery.
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Now, after years of living in a recession and having a career that has bottomed out, I am not so sure.
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Now, thanks in large part to your intellectually bankrupt philosophy and policies, the economy has bottomed out completely.
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Many experts believe the economy will bottom out soon, leading to a recovery in the job market.
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After several difficult months, she finally felt like her mood was starting to bottom out and improve.
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The real estate market is expected to bottom out by the end of this year, making it a good time to buy.
Synonyms
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4.2
To reach the lowest point before starting to improve
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4.8
To reach the lowest point in your life before you begin to get better
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5.1
Reach the lowest point after a time of trouble
To fall to the lowest point in a situation, for example in money or confidence
Antonyms
How Low
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core sense 'to reach the lowest point' is directly built from 'bottom' (reach the lowest point) plus the particle 'out' signaling completion or extent, so learners who know both words can generally infer the main meaning. However, the conventional inference that this low point is a turning point 'before starting to improve' is a pragmatic extension that may not be fully predictable from the parts alone, so the expression is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Bottom out: The verb bottom out paints the picture of something falling until its bottom hits the lowest point and cannot go lower, so it then begins to rise again. That's why we say a mood, price, or activity has 'bottomed out' when it has 'reached the lowest or worst point before starting to improve'.