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living and breathing

living and breathing is the present participle and gerund 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 living and breathing

What is living and breathing the present participle and gerund of?
Living and breathing is the present participle and gerund of live and breathe.

Words near living and breathing in the dictionary

  1. livin
  2. livin'
  3. living
  4. living a lie
  5. living a little
  6. living and breathing
  7. living and dying by
  8. living and learning
  9. living and letting live
  10. living at Her Majesty's pleasure
  11. living bandage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: living and breathing (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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