shend

American  

[shend] / ʃɛnd /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

shent, shending

1. to put to shame.

2. to reproach or scold.

3. to destroy or injure; damage.

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shend British  

/ ʃɛnd /

verb

1. to put to shame

2. to chide or reproach

3. to injure or destroy

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Etymology

Origin of shend

before 900; Middle English s ( c ) henden, Old English ( ge ) scendan (cognate with Dutch schenden, German schänden ), derivative of scand shame, infamy

Example Sentences

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shend shent

The knight press-ed into the place, An hundred followed him free, With bow-es bent, and arrows sharp, For to shend that company.

From A Bundle of Ballads by Morley, Henry

Shent, pa. t. shamed, disgraced, 2749; part. pa. shend, 2845.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

And all the foule which in his flood did dwell Gan flock about these twaine, that did excell The rest, so far as Cynthia doth shend The lesser starres.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Now if you shend her away yourshelf and hand her over to me, if you reshtore her at once, without any lawshuit in court, then I'll be friends with you forever.

From The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika by Ryder, Arthur William

And all the foule which in his flood did dwell Gan flock about these twaine, that did excell 120 The rest so far as Cynthia doth shend** The lesser stars.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

If ye find any fault, hardly let me be shent.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

And without al fauour prechyth Chrystys lore Of al the Comontye nowe adayes is sore shent.

From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Barclay, Alexander

To let the traitour live I am content,   Who, if full grace he has not merited,   Yet merits not to be so foully shent.

From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart

For Cecily, who bent Her slim white neck and went To Heaven a virgin still, The nodding daffodil, That bends but is not shent.

From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Shall we try a daring conjecture? —with such sober and unnoted passion He did behold his adversary shent, As if he had but prov'd an argument.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur