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beggar

2 verb
     
beggar2 [transitive]
1

beggar description/belief

if something beggars description or belief, it is impossible to describe or believe it:
They showed a lack of common sense that beggars belief.
2 literary to make someone very poor:
Why should he beggar himself for you?
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