bottom

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

bottoms

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

bottom

past (v2)

bottomed

past participle (v3)

bottomed

present participle

bottoming

3rd person singular

bottoms

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The lowest part of anything.

   • The Red Sox are at the bottom again.
   • There’s a hole in her pyjama bottoms.
   • Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.

2. 2.The remotest or innermost part of something.

   • I walked to the bottom of the street.
   • There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.
   • There was a pit in the bottom of my stomach.

3. 3.The fundamental part; a basic aspect.

4. 4.Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.

   • Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?
   • The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).

2. 2.To establish or found (something) on or upon.

   • Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
   • But an absurd opinion concerning the king’s hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.

3. 3.To furnish (something) with a bottom.

4. 4.To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.

   • My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.

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