1. Having a bottom of a specified character
   "The glass-bottomed boat offered a clear view of the coral reef"

1. Come to understand
   "He finally bottomed the complex theory";
   - penetrate, fathom
    
2. (cabinetwork) provide with a bottom or a seat
   "bottom the chairs"
    
3. Strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
   "The boat bottomed on a sandbar"
    
4. Fall to or reach the lowest point or value
   "the market bottomed at a record low"

See also: bellbottom, bell-bottom, bell-bottomed, copper-bottomed, round-bottom, round-bottomed

Type of: collide with, furnish, hit, impact, impinge on, offer, provide, render, run into, strike, supply, understand

Antonym: bottomless

Encyclopedia: Bottom, Daniel