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breathed one's last

breathed one's last is the simple past and past participle of breathe one's last.

Meaning of breathe one's last

Verb

breathe one's last (third-person singular simple present breathes one's last, present participle breathing one's last, simple past and past participle breathed one's last)

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic) To die.
    • Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last;
      And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  2. (uncommon) To be defeated.
    • For the longest while, the loss didn't seem real. For going on four hours, I'd done pretty much what I wanted to on that mound. I couldn't just shut that off, now that we had finally breathed our last.2009, Ron Darling with Daniel Paisner, The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 236

Questions about breathed one's last

What is breathed one's last the simple past and past participle of?
Breathed one's last is the simple past and past participle of breathe one's last.

Words near breathed one's last in the dictionary

  1. breathed down someone's neck
  2. breathed easy
  3. breathed freely
  4. breathed in
  5. breathed new life into
  6. breathed one's last
  7. breathed one's last breath
  8. breathed out
  9. breathed upon
  10. breathedst
  11. breather

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