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

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

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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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

I hazard, as you know, my lords' displeasure herein; and yet, to pleasure you, I will venture this once; but, I pray ye, make haste, that I be not shent.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt

Sorely shent wi' this rebuke, Sorely shent was the heir of Lime; His heart, I wis, was near to burst With guilt and sorrow, shame and sin.

From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

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

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

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

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