live and breathe

English

Alternative forms

• live, sleep, 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. To be thoroughly immersed in or concentrated on (something).

   To run a successful business, you have to live and breathe your product.

Further reading

• “live and breathe something”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “live and breathe sth”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “live and breathe something” (US) / “live and breathe something” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “live and breathe sth”, in Collins English Dictionary.