live down

English

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, chiefly in the negative) 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.

Translations

live so as to subdue

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• Finnish: elää läpi
• Spanish: lograr que se olvide

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• Russian: загладить (ru) n (zagladitʹ), искупи́ть (ru) n (iskupítʹ)