Bottom Out (Verb)
Meaning 1
Reach the low point; "Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while".
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
Examples
- The struggling company's stock price continued to fall, but eventually it bottomed out and started to recover.
- The unemployment rate in the region reached a peak and then finally began to bottom out after new businesses moved in.
- The housing market has bottomed out and is now showing signs of growth and revival.
- The demand for oil bottomed out in the last quarter of the year, but then picked up again in January.
- It took a few years, but the real estate market in the area has finally managed to bottom out and is now on the rise.
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Meaning 2
Hit the ground; "the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The old truck bottomed out as I drove over the pothole on Main Street.
- As we went over the speed bump too fast, the car bottomed out and scraped the underside.
- He failed to see the upcoming dip in the road and bottomed out his motorcycle, losing control.
- Driving on the bumpy dirt road caused my van to bottom out several times before we reached the campsite.
- When the dirt road met the blacktop, the car's low suspension caused it to bottom out with a loud thud.