Pronunciations
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/ʃɛnd/
Verb
To disgrace or put to shame.
Usage- Obsolete
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Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend
Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?
To blame.
Usage- Archaic
To destroy; to spoil.
Usage- Archaic
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Go see their fleet and arms, their manner view / of moulded metal, ready all to shend[.]
To overpower; to surpass.
Usage- Archaic
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More examples (2)
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.