beggar description meaning

[American idiom]
to defy description; to be unable to be described
• The house was a mess. The place beggared description.
• Our reaction to the proposal beggars description. We were deeply disturbed for days.

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1. her beauty beggars description.
2. the valley was so beautiful as to beggar description
3. the rubbish left behind by the cup final crowd beggars description
4. it did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad
5. it did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad