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bottomed on

bottomed on is the simple past and past participle of bottom on.

Meaning of bottom on

Verb

bottom on (third-person singular simple present bottoms on, present participle bottoming on, simple past and past participle bottomed on)

  1. (transitive) To ground or base on.
    • Unversed in financial projects and calculations and budgets, his approbation of them was bottomed on his confidence in the man. But Hamilton was not only a monarchist, but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption.1839, Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Observations on the writings of Thomas Jefferson

Questions about bottomed on

What is bottomed on the simple past and past participle of?
Bottomed on is the simple past and past participle of bottom on.

Words near bottomed on in the dictionary

  1. bottom-upwards
  2. bottomage
  3. bottomaged
  4. bottome
  5. bottomed
  6. bottomed on
  7. bottomed out
  8. bottomed the house
  9. bottomedness
  10. bottomelesse
  11. bottomer

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