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lives down

lives down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of live down.

Meaning of live down

Verb

live down (third-person singular simple present lives down, present participle living down, simple past and past participle lived down)

  1. (informal) To live so as to subdue or refute.
    • to live down slander
  2. (idiomatic) To cause others to forget about something embarrassing that happened to oneself.
    • I'll never be able to live down that time my pants fell down at the school dance.

Questions about lives down

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

Words near lives down in the dictionary

  1. lives and lets live
  2. lives assured
  3. lives at Her Majesty's pleasure
  4. lives beyond one's means
  5. lives dangerously
  6. lives down
  7. lives down to
  8. lives for
  9. lives from paycheck to paycheck
  10. lives in
  11. lives in each other's pockets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lives down (page history and authors); live down (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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