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shend


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shend  \Shend\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Shent};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Shending}.]  [AS.  scendan  to  disgrace,  bring  to  shame,  from 
  sceand,  sceond,  disgrace,  dishonor,  shame;  akin  to  G. 
  schande,  Goth.  skanda.  See  {Shame},  n.] 
  1.  To  injure,  mar,  spoil,  or  harm.  [Obs.]  ``Loss  of  time 
  shendeth  us.''  --Chaucer. 
 
  I  fear  my  body  will  be  shent.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  To  blame,  reproach,  or  revile;  to  degrade,  disgrace,  or 
  put  to  shame.  [Archaic]  --R.  Browning. 
 
  The  famous  name  of  knighthood  foully  shend. 
  --Spenser. 
 
  She  passed  the  rest  as  Cynthia  doth  shend  The  lesser 
  stars.  --Spenser.