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beggared belief

beggared belief is the simple past and past participle of beggar belief.

Meaning of beggar belief

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.

Questions about beggared belief

What is beggared belief the simple past and past participle of?
Beggared belief is the simple past and past participle of beggar belief.

Words near beggared belief in the dictionary

  1. beggar-thy-neighbor
  2. beggar-thy-neighbour
  3. beggar-ticks
  4. beggardom
  5. beggared
  6. beggared belief
  7. beggared description
  8. beggared the question
  9. beggarer
  10. beggarers
  11. beggaress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beggared belief (page history and authors); beggar belief (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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