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beggar description

beggar description verb: synonym of beggar belief.

Verb

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

  1. Synonym of beggar belief.
    Synonyms:
    beggar belief

Synonyms of beggar description

Forms of beggar description

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

Origin of beggar description

Coined by William Shakespeare in 1607 in "Antony and Cleopatra," act 2, scene 2: : For her own person, : It beggared all description: she did lie : In her pavilion—cloth-of-gold, of tissue— : O'erpicturing that Venus where we see : The fancy outwork nature.

Questions about beggar description

What does beggar description mean?
Beggar description means synonym of beggar belief.
What part of speech is beggar description?
Beggar description is a verb.
What is the past tense of beggar description?
The past tense of beggar description is beggared description.

Words near beggar description in the dictionary

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

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