shend

Verb

shend (third-person singular simple present shends, present participle shending, simple past and past participle shent)

1. (obsolete) To disgrace or put to shame.
   • Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight
     He would not shend1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
   • Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. (archaic) To blame.
3. (archaic) To destroy; to spoil.
   • Go see their fleet and arms, their manner view / of moulded metal, ready all to shend[.]1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 279
4. (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.1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 339
   • 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.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Chapter 7, The Hooded Face”, in The Black Arrow