live down
verb
lived down; living down; lives down
: to live so as to wipe out the memory or effects of
made a mistake and couldn't live it down
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More than twenty years before, Sophie had lived down the hall from me during our freshman year at NYU.
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Lynn Steger Strong, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 20 The infamous Goldberg vs. Brock Lesnar match at WrestleMania 20, widely regarded as one of the worst in WrestleMania history, lived down to its negative hype.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Reynolds had a place there but also lived down the street, in a two-story house at 14 rue Hallé with a big enough backyard to accommodate Brancusi sculptures, a gang of cats, and nightly gatherings of Surrealists.
—Karen Chernick, ARTnews.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Tori Spelling can’t live down this embarrassing wardrobe blunder.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
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Lynn Steger Strong, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 20 The infamous Goldberg vs. Brock Lesnar match at WrestleMania 20, widely regarded as one of the worst in WrestleMania history, lived down to its negative hype.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Reynolds had a place there but also lived down the street, in a two-story house at 14 rue Hallé with a big enough backyard to accommodate Brancusi sculptures, a gang of cats, and nightly gatherings of Surrealists.
—Karen Chernick, ARTnews.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Tori Spelling can’t live down this embarrassing wardrobe blunder.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Live down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/live%20down. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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