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lives and breathes

lives and breathes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 lives and breathes

What is lives and breathes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lives and breathes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of live and breathe.

Words near lives and breathes in the dictionary

  1. liverywoman
  2. liverywomen
  3. lives
  4. lives a lie
  5. lives a little
  6. lives and breathes
  7. lives and dies by
  8. lives and learns
  9. lives and lets live
  10. lives assured
  11. lives at Her Majesty's pleasure

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lives and breathes (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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