Oxford logo
Toggle navigation
Redeem
Upgrade
Help
Sign in
Dictionaries
Dictionaries home
English
American English
Academic
Collocations
German-English
Grammar
Grammar home
Practical English Usage
Learn & Practise Grammar (Beta)
Word Lists
Word Lists home
My Word Lists
Topics
Recent additions
Resources
Resources home
Text Checker
Sign in
Dictionaries
Dictionaries home
English
American English
Academic
Collocations
German-English
Grammar
Grammar home
Practical English Usage
Learn & Practise Grammar (Beta)
Word Lists
Word Lists home
My Word Lists
Topics
Recent additions
Resources
Resources home
Text Checker
Redeem
Upgrade
Help
TOP
American English
English
American English
Academic English
Collocations
Practical English Usage
German-English
English-German
English
American English
Enter search text
Definition of
bottom out phrasal verb
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
bottom out
phrasal verb
phrasal verb
jump to other results
Phrasal Verbs
bottom out
jump to other results
(
of prices, a bad situation, etc.
)
to stop getting worse
The recession is finally beginning to show signs of bottoming out.
See
bottom out
in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Other results
All matches
the bottom drops/falls out (of something)
Idioms
the bottom drops/falls out (of something)
Nearby words
bottomless
adjective
bottom line
noun
bottom out
phrasal verb
bottom-up
adjective
botulin
noun