Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put to shame; bring reproach, disgrace, or ignominy upon; disgrace.
- To blame; reprove; reproach; scold; revile.
- To injure; harm; spoil; punish.
- To ruin; destroy.
- To defeat; outdo; surpass.
- To forbid.
- To defend; protect.
- To be ruined; go to destruction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To injure, mar, spoil, or harm.
- transitive verb Archaic To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete to
disgrace or put toshame - verb archaic to
blame - verb archaic to
destroy , tospoil
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now if you shend her away yourshelf and hand her over to me, if you reshtore her at once, without any lawshuit in court, then I'll be friends with you forever.
The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika Arthur William Ryder 1907
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Sho I 'll shend him away, and then I' ll murder Vasantasenā.
The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika Arthur William Ryder 1907
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"You vill not leave here -- mein cracious, no! You vill shdop und get all die ostridge you gan, und shend dem out effery day to big oop zom shdones, und den you vill dig oop der earth vor die pirts to vind more shdones, und when dey haf shvallowed all dey gan, you und der bube here vill kill dem, und empty die gizzards into die powls of water to vash dem."
Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure George Manville Fenn 1870
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Their weedes bene not so nighly wore, such simplesse mought them shend:
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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