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

Shent, pa. t. shamed, disgraced, 2749; part. pa. shend, 2845.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

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

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 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

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

In the first canto there are a few archaisms; words like fere, shent, and losel occur, together with Gothic properties, such as the "eremite's sad cell" and "Paynim shores" and Newstead's "monastic dome."

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Shall we try a daring conjecture? —with such sober and unnoted passion He did behold his adversary shent, As if he had but prov'd an argument.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo

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

Unable to achieve my first intent,   I on a scheme of no less mischief fall:   Through me, all deemed his friends by him are shent,   Who thus bring down on him the hate of all.

From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose

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