"beggar belief" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beggars belief",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beggaring belief",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beggared belief",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beggared belief",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It beggars belief to suppose that corporate policies can always pursue the best interests of a company.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Sidney Lee, Shakespeare and the Modern Stage",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 November 17, “Network News: Anger at delegates' preferential treatment for Glasgow smartcards”, in RAIL, number 944, page 13",
          "text": "It beggars belief that delegates are given smartcards for free travel around the city, yet ordinary Glaswegians will still be forced to use a disjointed ticketing system.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 23, 0:07 from the start, in As Putin goes for broke: What next after Ukraine annexation referendums? • FRANCE 24 English, spoken by François Picard, France 24, archived from the original on 2022-09-27",
          "text": "[…] We'll ask about turnout numbers that already beggar belief and what happens after Vladimir Putin's Friday address scheduled before a joint session of the Russian parliament.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To appear implausible or unbelievable."
      ],
      "id": "en-beggar_belief-en-verb-hsj9eqTl",
      "links": [
        [
          "implausible",
          "implausible"
        ],
        [
          "unbelievable",
          "unbelievable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, chiefly UK) To appear implausible or unbelievable."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "beggar description"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "olla vaikea uskoa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "olla mahdotonta uskoa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "dépasser l’entendement"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "nie mieścić się w głowie"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "sobrepasar el entendimiento"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beggar belief"
}

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    {
      "form": "beggars belief",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beggaring belief",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beggared belief",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beggared belief",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It beggars belief to suppose that corporate policies can always pursue the best interests of a company.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Sidney Lee, Shakespeare and the Modern Stage",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 November 17, “Network News: Anger at delegates' preferential treatment for Glasgow smartcards”, in RAIL, number 944, page 13",
          "text": "It beggars belief that delegates are given smartcards for free travel around the city, yet ordinary Glaswegians will still be forced to use a disjointed ticketing system.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 23, 0:07 from the start, in As Putin goes for broke: What next after Ukraine annexation referendums? • FRANCE 24 English, spoken by François Picard, France 24, archived from the original on 2022-09-27",
          "text": "[…] We'll ask about turnout numbers that already beggar belief and what happens after Vladimir Putin's Friday address scheduled before a joint session of the Russian parliament.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To appear implausible or unbelievable."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "implausible",
          "implausible"
        ],
        [
          "unbelievable",
          "unbelievable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, chiefly UK) To appear implausible or unbelievable."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "beggar description"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "olla vaikea uskoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "olla mahdotonta uskoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "dépasser l’entendement"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "nie mieścić się w głowie"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "sobrepasar el entendimiento"
    }
  ],
  "word": "beggar belief"
}