Past tense of bottom
regular verb
The past tense of bottom is bottomed. The past participle is also bottomed.
Forms of bottom
| Base form (V1) | bottom /ˈbɒt.əm/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | bottomed |
| Past participle (V3) | bottomed |
| Present participle | bottoming |
| Third person singular | bottoms /ˈbɒ.təmz/ |
Bottomed in a sentence
- Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.2001, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and...
- My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine
- Going over that speed bump, my car bottomed out.From the entry bottom out
- These mini-dogs are proof that the fad for Kobe beef hasn’t bottomed out yet.2007 April 5, S. Irene Virbila, “Ketchup — all saucy and cute”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times…. From the entry Viennese sausage
- Where there are two semi-trailers and one motive unit this is called a double bottomed articulated vehicle or road train.2010, Alan Rushton, Phil Croucher, Peter Baker, The Handbook of Logistics & Distribution Management, page 398. From the entry road train
Meaning of bottom
- noun The lowest part of anything.
- noun The lowest or last position in a rank.
- noun A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
Questions about the past tense of bottom
- What is the past tense of bottom?
- The past tense of bottom is bottomed.
- What is the past participle of bottom?
- The past participle of bottom is bottomed.
- Is bottom a regular or irregular verb?
- Bottom is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bottom (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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