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touch bottom

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But the poles were too short now to touch bottom, and there were no ice cakes about to offer the necessary resistance.

Miss Athene's leavin' home has made it pretty steep, but this'll touch bottom—this will.

The boat went down into such deep water that the setting poles did not touch bottom.

"But I'm just going to touch bottom," the tall digger expostulated.

He could not touch bottom there, or even at the base of the Causeway.

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On this page you'll find 140 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to touch bottom, such as: capsize, decline, descend, dig, dip, and disappear.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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