shend
Americanverb (used with object)
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to put to shame.
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to reproach or scold.
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to destroy or injure; damage.
verb
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to put to shame
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to chide or reproach
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to injure or destroy
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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Other wayes yf I wend, Wyld bestis wyll̴ me shend: 1545 Falshede, woo worth it aye! and resolves to fight.
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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."
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Shent, pa. t. shamed, disgraced, 2749; part. pa. shend, 2845.
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The Knight pressed into the place, An hundred followed him free, With bows bent and arrows sharp For to shend that company.
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You vill shdop und get all die ostridge you gan, und shend dem out effery day to big oop zom shdones, und den you vill dig oop der earth vor die pirts to vind more shdones, und when dey haf shvallowed all dey gan, you und der bube here vill kill dem, und empty die gizzards into die powls of water to vash dem.”
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