Shend

/ʃɛnd/ · verb

Meaning

(obsolete) To disgrace or put to shame..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) To disgrace or put to shame.
2. (archaic) To blame.
3. (archaic) To destroy; to spoil.
4. (archaic) To overpower; to surpass.

Example Sentences

Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend

Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?

Go see their fleet and arms, their manner view / of moulded metal, ready all to shend[.]

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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• shends
• shending
• shent

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