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rock-bottom

rock-bottom verb: to fall to the lowest possible level. Also the alternative form of rock bottom.

Verb

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

  1. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall to the lowest possible level.
    • By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing.2010, Johann Hari, How Goldman Gambled on Starvation

Also used as

rock-bottom is also the alternative form of rock bottom.

Forms of rock-bottom

third-person singular presentrock-bottoms
present participlerock-bottoming
past participlerock-bottomed
pastrock-bottomed

Questions about rock-bottom

What does rock-bottom mean?
Rock-bottom means to fall to the lowest possible level.
What part of speech is rock-bottom?
Rock-bottom is a verb.
What is the past tense of rock-bottom?
The past tense of rock-bottom is rock-bottomed.

Words near rock-bottom in the dictionary

  1. rock wren
  2. rock wrens
  3. rock'n'roll
  4. rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock
  5. rock-and-roll
  6. rock-bottom
  7. rock-bottomed
  8. rock-bottoming
  9. rock-bottoms
  10. rock-bound
  11. rock-climb

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