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[ shend ]

/ ʃɛnd /

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verb (used with object), shent, shend·ing.Archaic.

to put to shame.

to reproach or scold.

to destroy or injure; damage.

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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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How to use shend in a sentence

But it is clear that Chaucer here has entente as usual, and rimes it with the form shent-e, which is the pp.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 (of 7) -- Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes|Geoffrey Chaucer
Nature came after, with many keen sores, as pokkes and pestilences, and much people shent.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton
It will be to promise to pay me my monish and only fifteen per shent, when you come into your own.
Japhet in Search of a Father|Frederick Marryat
He'll be shent,Pale unrelentor, When he shall hear the wedding lutes a playing.
Endymion|John Keats

British Dictionary definitions for shend

shend

/ (ʃɛnd) /

verb shends, shending or shent (ʃɛnt) (tr) archaic

to put to shame

to chide or reproach

to injure or destroy

Word Origin for shend

Old English gescendan, from scand shame

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