Definitions for shend
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WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shendverb

   to disgrace or put to shame

2. shendverb

   to blame

3. shendverb

   to destroy, to spoil

4. Etymology: From shenden, from scendan, from skandijanan, from (s)kem-. Cognate with schenden, German schänden, Danish skænde, Gothic
   0343
   033A
   0330
   033D
   0333
   0330. Related to scand. More at shame.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Shendverb

   preter. and part. pass. shent.

   Etymology: scendan , Saxon; schenden, Dutch.

   1. To ruin; to spoil; to mischief.

   Provide for thy wife, or else look to be shent,
   Good milchcow for Winter, another for Lent. Thomas Tusser.

   Shepherds, should it not yshent
   Your roundels fresh, to hear a doleful verse
   Of Rosalind, that Colin made? Edmund Spenser.

   Such a dream I had of dire portent,
   That much I fear my body will be shent;
   It bodes I shall have wars. Dryden.

   2. To disgrace; to degrade; to blame.

   Debateful strife, and cruel enmity,
   The famous name of knighthood foully shend. Fa. Queen.

   Sore bruised with the fall, he slow uprose,
   And all enraged thus, thus him loudly shent,
   Disleal knight, whose coward courage chose
   To wreak itself on beast. Fairy Queen.

   My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites,
   How in my words soever she be shent,
   To give them seals never my soul consent. William Shakespeare, Haml.

   3. To overpower; to crush; to surpass.

   She pass’d the rest as Cynthia doth shend
   The lesser stars. Edmund Spenser.

   4. It is, though used by John Dryden, wholly obsolete.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shendnoun

   to injure, mar, spoil, or harm

2. Shendnoun

   to blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame

3. Etymology: [AS. scendan to disgrace, bring to shame, from sceand, sceond, disgrace, dishonor, shame; akin to G. schande, Goth. skanda. See Shame, n.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shend

   shend, v.t. (Spens.) to disgrace, to reproach, to blame, also to overpower, to surpass:—pa.t. and pa.p. shent. [A.S. scendan, to disgrace—A.S. scand, sceand (Ger. schande), shame.]

How to pronounce shend?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say shend in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shend in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shend
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=shend
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shend
4. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=shend