"eat, breathe, and sleep" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-eat, breathe, and sleep.ogg [Australia] Forms: eats, breathes, and sleeps [present, singular, third-person], eating, breathing, and sleeping [participle, present], ate, breathed, and slept [past], eaten, breathed, and slept [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|eat<,,ate,eaten>, breathe<>, and sleep<,,slept>}} eat, breathe, and sleep (third-person singular simple present eats, breathes, and sleeps, present participle eating, breathing, and sleeping, simple past ate, breathed, and slept, past participle eaten, breathed, and slept)
  1. (transitive, idiomatic, informal) To devote one's time obsessively to. Tags: idiomatic, informal, transitive

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