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

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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 Henry Morley

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 120 The rest so far as Cynthia doth shend** The lesser stars.

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

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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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 Arthur William Ryder

I haue once ben so shent for your maisters pleasure, As I will not be agayne for all hys treasure.

From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Edward Arber

I pray you tell to me: You myght thus make offycers shent: Good syrs, of whence be ye?’

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick

Through Him our foemen, death itself through Him is shent!

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Come, master Jacob, ye must make no tarrying, For I it is that shall be shent, if you be slack, Here is your son Jacob now, master Isaac.

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

It always did make my back ache to lean over that old desk, and I’m glad to git shent of it.

From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon

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