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breathing one's last

breathing one's last is the present participle and gerund 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 breathing one's last

What is breathing one's last the present participle and gerund of?
Breathing one's last is the present participle and gerund of breathe one's last.

Words near breathing one's last in the dictionary

  1. breathing freely
  2. breathing gas
  3. breathing gases
  4. breathing in
  5. breathing new life into
  6. breathing one's last
  7. breathing one's last breath
  8. breathing out
  9. breathing room
  10. breathing space
  11. breathing spaces

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