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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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
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 Spenser, Edmund
He used "eyne" for "eyes," "fone" for "foes," "shend" for "shame."
From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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
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 Porterfield, Allen Wilson
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 Dixon, Maynard
We will take no risks till Lucas is shent.
From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha
He'll be shent, Pale unrelentor, When he shall hear the wedding lutes a playing.–
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John
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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