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

Florian sang again:-- "If you would live like a little bird, And have no cares to shend ye; Just marry, till the summer's round, Whome'er the spring may send ye."

From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

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

The Knight pressed into the place, An hundred followed him free, With bows bent and arrows sharp For to shend that company.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

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

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

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

Howbeit,this good husbandrie came short of the deuisers promise, and the Kings expectation: wherethrough the one was shent for the attempt, and the other discontented with the effect.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew

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 William Stewart Rose

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 Maurice Henry Hewlett

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