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- verb intransitive To appear
implausible orunbelievable
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MaryW commented on the word beggar belief
"Pedro Serrano was shipwrecked there in the first half of the sixteenth century—the date is uncertain—and his survival story is so extreme as to beggar belief."
Tim Severin, In Search of Robinson Crusoe (2003)
October 30, 2015