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breathes one's last

breathes one's last is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 breathes one's last

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Breathes one's last is the third-person singular simple present indicative of breathe one's last.

Words near breathes one's last in the dictionary

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

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