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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: live so as to annul some previous behavior; "You can never live this down!" [syn: unlive, live down]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1842 to live so as to wipe out the memory or effects of <made a mistake and couldn't live it down>

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you are unable to live down a mistake, failure, or bad reputation, you are unable to make people forget about it. Labour was also unable to live down its reputation as the party of high taxes... I thought I'd never live it down. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P

Moby Thesaurus

atone, atone for, compensate, expiate, give satisfaction, make amends, make compensation, make good, make matters up, make reparation, make right, make up for, pay the forfeit, pay the penalty, propitiate, recompense, redeem, redress, repair, satisfy, square it, square things