shend

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ʃɛnd/

Definition of shend

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete)To disgrace or put to shame.
    “Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend”
    “Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?”
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verb

  1. (obsolete)To disgrace or put to shame.
    “Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend”
    “Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?”
  2. (archaic)To blame.
  3. (archaic)To destroy; to spoil.
    “Go see their fleet and arms, their manner view / of moulded metal, ready all to shend[.]”
  4. (archaic)To overpower; to surpass.
    “Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force o'er man extendeth sway.”
    “Not since I backed a horse have I been perssed so hard; peril of life, jeopardy of land and livelihood, and to sum up, all these losels in the wood to hunt me down. But I be not yet shent. Some of my lads will pick me their way home.”

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Etymology

From Middle English shenden, from Old English sċendan (“to put to shame, blame, disgrace”), from Proto-West Germanic *skandijan (“to scold, berate”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kem- (“to cover”). Cognate with Dutch schenden (“to infringe, profane, defile”), German schänden (“defile”). Related to Old English sċand (“infamy, shame, scandal”). More at shand, shame.

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