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beggar belief

beggar belief verb: to appear implausible or unbelievable.

Verb

beggar belief (third-person singular simple present beggars belief, present participle beggaring belief, simple past and past participle beggared belief)

  1. (UK, intransitive) To appear implausible or unbelievable.
    • It beggars belief to suppose that corporate policies can always pursue the best interests of a company.
    • In Shakespeare's day boys or men took the part of women, and how characters like Lady Macbeth and Desdemona were adequately rendered by youths beggars belief.1907, Sidney Lee, Shakespeare and the Modern Stage

Synonyms of beggar belief

Forms of beggar belief

third-person singular presentbeggars belief
present participlebeggaring belief
past participlebeggared belief
pastbeggared belief

Questions about beggar belief

What does beggar belief mean?
Beggar belief means to appear implausible or unbelievable.
What part of speech is beggar belief?
Beggar belief is a verb.
What is the past tense of beggar belief?
The past tense of beggar belief is beggared belief.

Words near beggar belief in the dictionary

  1. Begg
  2. begg'd
  3. beggable
  4. Beggan Beggan
  5. beggar
  6. beggar belief
  7. beggar description
  8. beggar off
  9. beggar the question
  10. beggar's buttons
  11. beggar's chicken

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