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lived and breathed

lived and breathed is the simple past and past participle of live and breathe.

Meaning of live and breathe

Verb

live and breathe (third-person singular simple present lives and breathes, present participle living and breathing, simple past and past participle lived and breathed)

  1. (transitive) To be thoroughly immersed in or concentrated on (something).
    • To run a successful business, you have to live and breathe your product.

Questions about lived and breathed

What is lived and breathed the simple past and past participle of?
Lived and breathed is the simple past and past participle of live and breathe.

Words near lived and breathed in the dictionary

  1. livechatted
  2. livechatting
  3. lived
  4. lived a lie
  5. lived a little
  6. lived and breathed
  7. lived and died by
  8. lived and learned
  9. lived and learnt
  10. lived and let live
  11. lived at Her Majesty's pleasure

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lived and breathed (page history and authors); live and breathe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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