English Explanatory Dictionary

beggar description

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. Synonym of beggar belief.

Word forms

beggar description beggars description beggaring description beggared description

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

beggar belief
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