Usually means: Overcome embarrassment of past actions.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. live down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. live down: Merriam-Webster
  3. live down: Collins English Dictionary
  4. live down: Vocabulary.com
  5. live down: Wiktionary
  6. live down: Dictionary.com
  7. live down: Rhymezone
  8. live down: FreeDictionary.org
  9. live down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. live down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. live down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. live down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. live down: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. live down: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (live down)

verb:  (informal) To live so as to subdue or refute.
verb:  (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To cause others to forget about something embarrassing that happened to oneself.

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