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live down

/lɪv daʊn/

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verb

/lɪv daʊn/C1formal
  • ruФразовый глагол, используемый для обозначения преодоления или избавления от стыда или смущения из-за прошлой ошибки или неудачи с течением времени.

A phrasal verb used to indicate overcoming or escaping the shame or embarrassment of a past mistake or failure over time.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

  1. Overcome embarrassmentinformal

    To successfully make others forget a past mistake, failure, or embarrassing event.

    ruПережить позор

    • He will never live down the time he tripped on stage.
    • She managed to live down her reputation as a troublemaker.
    • They tried to live down the scandal, but it followed them for years.

    Synonymsget overoutliveovercomeshake off

    Antonymsflaunt

Forms
  • lived down past participle
  • lived down past simple
  • living down present participle
  • lives down third person singular

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Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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