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  • as infail
  • as inmiscarry

synonyms for hit bottom

  • break down
  • decline
  • fall
  • abort
  • backslide
  • blunder
  • deteriorate
  • fizzle
  • flop
  • flounder
  • fold
  • founder
  • miscarry
  • miss
  • slip
  • back wrong horse
  • be defeated
  • be demoted
  • be found lacking
  • be in vain
  • be ruined
  • come to naught
  • come to nothing
  • fall flat
  • fall short
  • fall through
  • go astray
  • go down
  • go down swinging
  • go downhill
  • go up in smoke
  • go wrong
  • hit the skids
  • lose control
  • lose out
  • lose status
  • meet with disaster
  • miss the boat
  • play into
  • run aground
  • turn out badly

antonyms for hit bottom

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  • ascend
  • go up
  • rise
  • accomplish
  • achieve
  • build
  • correct
  • develop
  • do well
  • succeed
  • capture
  • complete
  • deliver
  • earn
  • finish
  • gain
  • merit
  • obtain
  • procure
  • prosper
  • reach
  • win
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How to use hit bottom in a sentence

Many of us had been hit by the balls, but a bruise or a graze of the skin was the worst consequence that had ensued.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
In these archipelagos the waters being shallow, the frost was quite intense enough to cool them to the bottom.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNE
"I have a letter somewhere," looking in the machine drawer and finding the letter in the bottom of the workbasket.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
He shut his fist and hit Butterface a weak but well intended right-hander on the nose.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNE
In the presence of bromin the chloroform, which settles to the bottom, assumes a yellow color.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODD
One of the men seemed pretty bad, being hit in the head and in the body.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
The signatures at the bottom of this memorandum, were hidden from Wharton's view, when he was allowed to read it.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
When we got down into the bottom Mac turned aside to the deep-worn trail and glanced sharply down at the ruts.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
Industrial society, they say, must be reorganized from top to bottom; private industry must cease.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK
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