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
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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.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
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
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
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
For if Jacob should come, I not in readiness, I must of covenant be shent of our mistress.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt
He can’t come running up like a kid on the street who says: ‘Mumma, gif me a shent; I want to buy some tandy.’
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
Backe sirs, so: I tolde you afore ye woulde be shent.
From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Edward Arber
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
And without al fauour prechyth Chrystys lore Of al the Comontye nowe adayes is sore shent.
From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Alexander Barclay
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