BOTTOM OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bottom out mean? 

• BOTTOM OUT (verb)
  The verb BOTTOM OUT has 2 senses:

1. reach the low point

2. hit the ground

  Familiarity information: BOTTOM OUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTTOM OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reach the low point

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while

Hypernyms (to "bottom out" is one way to...):

arrive at; attain; gain; hit; make; reach (reach a destination, either real or abstract)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Antonym:

top out (to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hit the ground

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road

Hypernyms (to "bottom out" is one way to...):

collide with; hit; impinge on; run into; strike (hit against; come into sudden contact with)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

Yes, truly, replied the peasant, I sank deep, deep down, until at last I got to the bottom; I pushed the bottom out of the barrel, and crept out, and there were pretty meadows on which a number of lambs were feeding, and from thence I brought this flock away with me.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)