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Verb: bottom out
  1. Reach the low point
    "Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while"
     
  2. Hit the ground
    "the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road"

Derived forms: bottoms out, bottoming out, bottomed out

Type of: arrive at, attain, collide with, gain, hit, impact, impinge on, make, reach, run into, strike

Antonym: top out

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