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shende

shende is the obsolete spelling of shend.

Meaning of 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
  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

Forms of shende

third-person singular presentshendes
present participleshending
past participleshent
pastshent

Questions about shende

What is shende the obsolete spelling of?
Shende is the obsolete spelling of shend.

Words near shende in the dictionary

  1. shenans
  2. Shenberger
  3. Shenbergers
  4. Shenchi
  5. shend
  6. shende
  7. shending
  8. shends
  9. shendyt
  10. Shenefield
  11. Shenefields

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shende (page history and authors); shend (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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