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hit bottom
verb as in fail
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- 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
verb as in miscarry
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- back wrong horse
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- break down
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- fall flat
- fall short
- 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 fire
- miss the boat
- miss the mark
- play into
- run aground
- turn out badly
Example Sentences
It is another to fall and to keep falling, again and again, even after you were supposed to have hit bottom.
We buy shares when the market has crested, and sell when the market has hit bottom.
Now all we have to do is hope that they pull out of the dive before we all hit bottom.
The economy hit bottom in the summer of 2009 and a recovery then began.
Evidence is mounting that the housing market finally hit bottom and is in the process of recovering.
While working our way inshore over the shoals we hit bottom several times and finally went aground.
Hit bottom hard at 64 feet, and proceeded along bottom at full speed.
The truth is I have hit bottom good and hard and it is only to-day that I have come to the surface.
And judging by the deep sadness in his soul, he knew he had hit bottom.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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