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breathe one's last breath en · VERB

Meanings

  1. Synonym of breathe one's last.
    • The grease on his hand from Burt’s apron meant that slowly but surely he was losing his grip. Any moment now, he was going to breathe his last breath. 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
    • 1962 October, Tristram Coffin, "Peace in politics", in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 18, nr. 8, page 43. When the isolationists were breathing their last frantic breaths in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt boldly campaigned on an internationally based policy.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
breathing one's last breath Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
breathes one's last breath Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
breathed one's last breath Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
breathed one's last breath Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

breathe one's last