Meanings
- To an extreme or unbelievable degree.
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, →OCLC3 more examples
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 carpetOnce 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 ThatMy 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
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