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breathe one's last

verb

Etymology

Perhaps first used in Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 3 (c. 1591). Compare breathe (“to live”).

Definitions

  1. To die.

    • Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last; And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,
    • She breathed her last surrounded by her family and friends, commending them to God and the study of his word.
    • The Green Council” is a tense chess game of an episode, kicking off the power vacuum that we knew was coming the moment Viserys breathed his last.

  2. To be defeated.

    • For the longest while, the loss didn't seem real. For going on four hours, I'd done pretty much what I wanted to on that mound. I couldn't just shut that off, now that we had finally breathed our last.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA