Verb live to regret (third-person singular simple present lives to regret, present participle living to regret, simple past and past participle lived to regret) (transitive) to regret doing something. Translations Translations Finnish: joutua katumaan, tulla katumaan French: s’en mordre les doigts (fr) See also kick oneself live with oneself rue the day Further reading “live to regret something”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “somebody will live to regret it” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman. “someone will live to regret something” (US) / “someone will live to regret something” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary. “live to regret”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.