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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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 Auerbach, Berthold
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 Morley, Henry
He used "eyne" for "eyes," "fone" for "foes," "shend" for "shame."
From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post
Shent, pa. t. shamed, disgraced, 2749; part. pa. shend, 2845.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
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 Ryder, Arthur William
For many a lovere hastow shent, and wilt; Thy pouring in wol no-wher lete hem dwelle.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey
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 Rose, William Stewart
I must in again, lest perhaps I be shent, For I asked noboby licence, when I went.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
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 Carew, Richard
But he that is in study ay firme and diligent, And without all favour preacheth Christe's love, Of all the Cominalite nowe adayes is sore shent, And by estates threatned oft therfore.
From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner
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