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touch bottom
verb as in sink
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verb as in submerse
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“Slowly but steadily, the male gently pushed the pup to shore until it could touch bottom,” the study said.
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You have to touch bottom before you can kind of start to come back up again.
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Dicey and James were tall enough to touch bottom, but the water was over the heads of the smaller children.
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Every now and then she lowered a tentative foot to touch bottom.
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“There you go,” he said, when I was able to touch bottom again.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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