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

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

He used "eyne" for "eyes," "fone" for "foes," "shend" for "shame."

From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

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 The rest, so far as Cynthia doth shend The lesser starres.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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

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

It always did make my back ache to lean over that old desk, and I’m glad to git shent of it.

From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon

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 Frederick Somner Merryweather

Up they start all in haste, Their bows were smartly bent: Our King was never so sore aghast; He wended to have been shent!

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

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