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Shend

//ʃɛnd// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To disgrace or put to shame. obsolete

    "Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend"

  2. 2
    To blame. archaic
  3. 3
    To destroy; to spoil. archaic

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

  4. 4
    To overpower; to surpass. archaic

    "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."

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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