Object

• belief: It frankly beggars belief that planning permission was granted in the first place.

• description: Such a sight we encountered as would beggar all description.

Converse of object

• wander: These wandering beggars are said to have consecrated their life to music-making for God, and Uyghurs are very charitable toward them.

• tell: The old saw about 'one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread, ' is in the same line.

• become: The Badshah of the palace became a beggar of the street; the prince turned a pauper.

• meet: I met a beggar in Italy at the age of twelve.

Adjective modifier

• crippled: A crippled beggar, miraculously cured, leaps up to help them.

• sturdy: The Elizabethan view of " sturdy beggars " was distinguished from the " impotent poor " in the legislation.

• blind: Early last century there was a blind beggar who, led by his dog, tried in vain to cross a busy London street.

• homeless: In 1979 homeless beggars on the streets of major British cities were fiction, not an obscene reality.

• aggressive: An aggressive beggar has been slapped with his second anti-social behavior order.

• poor: Poor young beggars, they all has their troubles afore ' em!

Preposition: on

• street: In 1979 homeless beggars on the streets of major British cities were fiction, not an obscene reality.

Modifies a noun

• belief: More water in the Ness at Holm Burn beggars belief.

• description: Your glory, which permeates all space, beggars description.

• cannot: But beggars cannot be choosers and there never appears to be a shortage of takers when a rare part is offered.

• woman: I found my tiny beggar woman radiant with smiles.

Possessives

• belief: The amount of kit being connected to miles of cable beggar's belief.

Preposition: in

• street: Some will have heard the cries of beggars in the streets; some will have smelled the stench of open sewers.

Noun used with modifier

• street: Peaceful, not much traffic and no street beggars.