"breathe one's last breath" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: breathes one's last breath [present, singular, third-person], breathing one's last breath [participle, present], breathed one's last breath [participle, past], breathed one's last breath [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} breathe one's last breath (third-person singular simple present breathes one's last breath, present participle breathing one's last breath, simple past and past participle breathed one's last breath)
  1. Synonym of breathe one's last Synonyms: breathe one's last [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-breathe_one's_last_breath-en-verb-QhZTasB3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English predicates, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "1962 October, Tristram Coffin, \"Peace in politics\", in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 18, nr. 8, page 43.\nWhen the isolationists were breathing their last frantic breaths in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt boldly campaigned on an internationally based policy."
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