shend
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
Definition of shend
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(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
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(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?”
- (archaic)To blame.
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(archaic)To destroy; to spoil.
“Go see their fleet and arms, their manner view / of moulded metal, ready all to shend[.]”
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(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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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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