beggar description

== English == === 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. === Verb === beggar description (third-person singular simple present beggars description, present participle beggaring description, simple past and past participle beggared description) Synonym of beggar belief. ==== Further reading ==== “beggar belief description”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present. “beggar belief description” (US) / “beggar belief description” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary. “beggar description belief” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman. “beggar belief beggar description”, in Collins English Dictionary.