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What is the verb for bottom?

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bottom
  1. To fall to the lowest point.
  2. To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest on or upon something which provides support or authority.
  3. (intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
  4. (intransitive) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
  6. (transitive) To furnish with a bottom.
  7. To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
  8. Synonyms:
bottomed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of bottom
bottoms
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bottom
bottoming
  1. present participle of bottom
  2. Examples:
    1. “After bottoming out three years ago, unemployment now stands at 6.4 percent, and the economic recovery is sluggish.”
      “On the positive side, there is now emerging consensus in the trade that the price crash is close to bottoming out.”
      “We could only get a few vehicles on the screen at a time on our test machine without the frame rate bottoming out.”
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