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beyond belief en · ADP

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1. To an extreme or unbelievable degree.
   • Once he even turned up at our aerobics class, clad in a muscle shirt and royal blue spandex shorts, which yucked me out beyond belief. 2006, Carol Snow, Been There, Done That:
   • He was worn out, dirty beyond belief, and home. 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
   • My name is General Robinson Risner. I was the highest-ranking prisoner-of-war in the Vietnam War. I spent seven years locked up in solitary confinement. I was tortured beyond belief. I limp because of it. Today I still have a hole in the front of my skull from the Chinese water torture inflicted on me. 2007, Dan Clark, The Thrill of Teaching, →ISBN, page 61:
   • Their trunks were gnarled beyond belief, like those in fairybooks. They were covered with the cuneiform of woodpeckers and yellowhammers. 1951, Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, On the green carpet: