† shendn.
Obsolete. rare.
Disgrace, ruin.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > state of being destroyed or ruined
lossc897
losingc950
lore971
destructionc1330
forlesing1340
lostc1374
undoing1377
perditiona1382
shendc1400
decay1535
rack1599
undoneness1835
wanthrift1929
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [noun]
unworshipc888
bismerc893
shameOE
shondOE
shendnessc1000
shendinga1220
shendlaca1225
slander1297
brixlea1300
shendship1303
hounteec1330
dishonourc1380
reproofc1380
defamationa1387
dishonestyc1386
hountagec1390
defamea1393
disworshipa1400
mishonoura1400
villainya1400
shendc1400
rebukec1425
contemptc1430
reproach?a1439
reprobationa1450
disfamec1460
opprobry?a1475
lackc1480
shentc1480
vitupery1489
defamy1490
opprobre1490
dain?a1500
contemnment1502
ignominy?1527
scandalization1530
ignomy1534
contumely1555
disglory1567
dehonestationa1575
disgrace1592
attainder1597
disreputation1601
defaming1611
ignominiousness1655
adoxy1656
opprobrium1684
shonda1961
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 7304 We ligge here in stormes and schende.
a1450 Le Morte Arth. 1664 The squyer than was done to shende.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 284 For jlle werk bryngeth a man to evele ende And jn-to synne & synneres schende.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
shendv.1
/ʃɛnd//ʃɛnt/. Forms: Old English ( ge-) scendan, ( gesciendan, -scyndan), Middle English sceandan, Middle English scanden, scenden, sceind, schiende, s(s)ende, synde, (Ormin) shennd, Middle English schend, Middle English–1600s shende, Middle English shind, shynde, scheend, scheind, Middle English schind, schynde, sheende, Middle English–1500s Scottish schent, Middle English sheynd, ( schente, 1500s–1600s shent), Middle English– shend; 3rd person singular present indicative Old English ( ge-) scent, ( sciend, gesciend, -scind, seynt), Middle English schent, Middle English shent; past tense Old English, Middle English ( ge-) scent, scende, ssende, Middle English schende, Middle English schente, Middle English–1500s schent, Middle English shende, shente, Middle English shend, Middle English–1500s, 1800s shent; Middle English (Ormin) shendedd; past participle Old English ge-scend, -scynd, ( -sciend), Middle English schent, scent, (Ormin) shennd, y-scend, ( y-)ssent, Middle English schente, y-schend, -ssend, eschend, Middle English–1600s schent, Middle English scheint, ( chent), Middle English y-schent, ( -chend), ( y-)schende, Middle English y-shent(e, ( e-chent), schend, scheent, Middle English–1500s shend, Middle English–1600s shente, Middle English– shent; Old English gescended, ( -sci(e)nded), Middle English shendit, 1800s shended. Now dialect and archaic.Proverb.a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS 683/12 Hos seiþ þe soþe, he schal be schent.a1400 in Songs & Poems Costume (Percy Soc.) 44 Who seyt trowthe is shent.1493 Festivall (1515) 26 Soo he that wyll saye the trouthe he shall be shente.† 4. To discomfit (in battle or dispute). Obsolete.In Middle English confession was often said to ‘shend’ the devil.† 5. intransitive. = ‘to be shent’. Obsolete.† 6. In the Destruction of Troy the phrase to shend of is apparently equivalent to the transitive uses, to dishonour, to destroy, injure. Obsolete.
1. † b. To put to shame by superiority. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To put to shame or confusion; to confound, disgrace.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > shame [verb (transitive)]
shendc825
shame1530
ashame1591
affront1670
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [verb (transitive)] > put to shame
shendc825
ofshameOE
forlesec1200
to bring, shape, turn to shamea1250
to put to shamea1250
confoundc1290
confusec1350
rebuke1529
beshame?1567
disgrace1593
outshame1824
c825 Vesp. Ps. cxviii. 31 Nyl mec gescendan [L. noli me confundere].
a1050 Lamb. Ps. xxiv. 3 Ealle þa..anbidiaþ þe ne beon gescynde.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1543 For nauer ich ne wende. þat þu me woldes þus scanden [c1300 Otho sende].
c1275 XI Pains of Hell 362 in Old Eng. Misc. 222 Lest ȝe be chamyd and schend.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 3289 Þe wraiers þat weren in halle, Schamly were þai schende.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16690 ‘Ihesus nazaren, o Iuus king’, þar-on þai wrate,..al for to scend [Gött. schind] his state.
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 25 Ellys with chenchip and with chame þai wyle be e-chent.
1436 Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 183 To shende the olde Englisshe fames.
c1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xiv. 21 Than, Father slaine, Mother was schent.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R6v Debatefull strife, and cruell enmity The famous name of knighthood fowly shend.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxxix. 16 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 220 Terror shall your mindes amate: Blush and shame your faces shend.
1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. v. 198 This serves deepely to shent and shame us for our first brutish ignorance.
1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 188 He'll be shent,..When he shall hear the wedding lutes a playing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > put in the shade or put to shame
shamec1400
to put down1494
extinguish1551
stain1557
overshadow1581
cloud1582
defacea1592
shend1596
to lay up1601
to shine down1623
dazzle1643
umbrage1647
foila1687
efface1717
eclipse1718
shade?1748
put into the shade1796
to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819
to put to shame1854
to leave (a person) standing1864
to lay over1869
blanket1884
upstage1921
1596 E. Spenser Prothalamion vii. sig. B These twaine, that did excell The rest, so far, as Cynthia doth shend The lesser starres.
2. To blame, reproach, reprove; to revile, scold. In later use the passive often = to suffer for one's deeds, be punished (cf. sense 3).
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > [verb (intransitive)] > receive punishment
shendc897
drinka1340
sufferc1380
to kiss the roda1586
to pay for——a1593
to give, get goss1840
to come in for it1841
to cop it1884
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [verb (transitive)]
edwitec825
shendc897
lehtriec1000
atwiteOE
gaba1200
begredec1200
tucka1225
reprove?1316
braidc1325
abraidc1330
upbraida1340
reprocec1350
reprucec1350
umbraida1393
reproacha1400
brixlec1400
saya1470
embraid1481
outbraid1509
check1526
twit1530
entwite1541
broide1546
taunt1560
upbray1581
improperate1623
betwit1661
to jack up1896
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxi. 207 Ðone scamleasan mon mæg ðy bet gebetan ðe hine mon suiður ðreað & sciend [Cotton MS. scent].
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1992 Þatt ȝho ne wære shamedd her Ne shennd off unnclænnesse.
c1230 Hali Meid. (Bodl.) 454 Chit te & cheoweð þe, & scheomeliche schent te.
c1290 Beket 975 in S. Eng. Leg. 134 ‘Louerdinges’, he seide, ‘here ȝe i-seoz hov þis man me schent’.
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 9 Whan y schal schewen myn schrift schent mote y worþen.
c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 104 Goddis name in ydil take þou not, For if þou do þou schalt be scheent.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. cxxxi. 69 I mihte not endure hem longe swiche withoute sheendinge myself.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cclxxviii. 416 Sir Robert Canoll gate in the..voyage..aboue the somme of a hundred thousande frankes, wherof afterwarde he was shente.
1543 in J. Strype Cranmer (1694) App. 66 The Councel said..that the Justices of every shire should be shent, that such things should be.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xxii. 35–38 Seyng that Peter was shent because that he drewe his sweorde.
1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau ii. iii. sig. C.iv I must in againe, lest perhaps I be shent, For I asked no body licence when I went.
1600 G. Markham Teares of Beloved sig. D3v This monstrous sinne, for which I thus am shent.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. ii. 106 Alas sir be patient. What say you sir, I am shent for speaking to you. View more context for this quotation
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cambr. 153 Yet was his Loyalty shent, but not sham'd.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 227 Much I fear my Body will be shent.
1742 W. Shenstone School-mistress ii They..For Hair unkempt, or Task unconn'd are sorely shent.
1855 R. Browning Master Hugues x Masters being lauded and sciolists shent.
3. absolute.a1568 Bannatyne MS (Hunterian Club) 648 Quhithir scho schent or scho saif, I am hir serwand.† b. To disfigure, spoil; to corrupt, infect; to defile, soil. Obsolete.
a. To destroy, ruin, bring to destruction. Also, in milder sense, to injure, damage, spoil.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
undoc950
shendOE
forfarea1000
endc1000
to do awayOE
aquenchc1175
slayc1175
slayc1175
stathea1200
tinea1300
to-spilla1300
batec1300
bleschea1325
honisha1325
leesea1325
wastec1325
stanch1338
corrumpa1340
destroy1340
to put awayc1350
dissolvec1374
supplanta1382
to-shend1382
aneantizec1384
avoidc1384
to put outa1398
beshenda1400
swelta1400
amortizec1405
distract1413
consumec1425
shelfc1425
abroge1427
downthringc1430
kill1435
poisonc1450
defeat1474
perish1509
to blow away1523
abrogatea1529
to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
wipea1538
extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
braina1616
stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.)
shendOE
whelvec1000
allayOE
ofdrunkenc1175
quenchc1175
quashc1275
stanchc1315
quella1325
slockena1340
drenchc1374
vanquishc1380
stuffa1387
daunt?a1400
adauntc1400
to put downa1425
overwhelmc1425
overwhelvec1450
quatc1450
slockc1485
suppressa1500
suffocate1526
quealc1530
to trample under foot1530
repress1532
quail1533
suppress1537
infringe1543
revocate1547
whelm1553
queasom1561
knetcha1564
squench1577
restinguish1579
to keep down1581
trample1583
repel1592
accable1602
crush1610
to wrestle down?1611
chokea1616
stranglea1616
stifle1621
smother1632
overpower1646
resuppress1654
strangulate1665
instranglea1670
to choke back, down, in, out1690
to nip or crush in the bud1746
spiflicate1749
squasha1777
to get under1799
burke1835
to stamp out1851
to trample down1853
quelch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
smash1865
garrotte1878
scotch1888
douse1916
to drive under1920
stomp1936
stultify1958
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)]
mareOE
shendOE
hinderc1000
amarOE
awemc1275
noyc1300
touchc1300
bleche1340
blemisha1375
spill1377
misdoa1387
grieve1390
damagea1400
despoil?a1400
matea1400
snapea1400
mankc1400
overthrowa1425
tamec1430
undermine1430
blunder1440
depaira1460
adommage?1473
endamage1477
prejudicec1487
fulyie1488
martyra1500
dyscrase?1504
corrupt1526
mangle1534
danger1538
destroy1542
spoil1563
ruinate1564
ruin1567
wrake1570
injury1579
bane1587
massacre1589
ravish1594
wrong1595
rifle1604
tainta1616
mutilea1618
to do violence toa1625
flaw1665
stun1676
quail1682
maul1694
moil1698
damnify1712
margullie1721
maul1782
buga1790
mux1806
queer1818
batter1840
puckeroo1840
rim-rack1841
pretty1868
garbage1899
savage1899
to do in1905
strafe1915
mash1924
blow1943
nuke1967
mung1969
OE Crist III 1548 Se deopa seað dreorge fedeð, grundleas giemeð gæsta on þeostre, æleð hy mid þy ealdan lige, ond mid þy egsan forste, wra7th.um wyrmum ond mid wita fela, frecnum feorhgomum, folcum scendeð.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 39 Her is ane reowlic bone to biddene bute we inwarliche imilcien and forgeuen þan monne þe us wreðeð and sceandet.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12822 Þe scaðe..þa scendeþ [c1300 Otho sendes] þas leode.
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 26569 Bruttus ous wolleþ synde.
c1300 Harrow. Hell (Harl.) 130 Þou shalt neuer out wende monkunne forte shende.
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 450 Mani hauberk was torent & mani þurch þe bodi schent.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 95 To ben Clerkes of þe kynges Benche þe Cuntre to schende.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 523 Þe Sarasyn sayd til him þanne ‘þyn heȝ herte wil þee schynde’.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 347 His navey was nyh [al] adreynt, and his oost i-schend wiþ colde and wiþ honger [L. fame et frigore contabuit].
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 181 [In a hail-storm] men were i-schent [L. contriti], and foules were i-seie flee in þe ayre.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxxi. 120 The Oynement, that shendithe the tethe of þe lioune, is almis-dede.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. xii. 432 They wold not for no good that sire Dagonet were shente, for Kyng Arthur loued hym passynge wel.
1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms lxxiii. 5 And free from all aduersitie, when other men be shent.
1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 367v/1 The knights swelt for lack of shade nie shent.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne vi. iv. 94 But we must yeeld, whom hunger soone will shend.
1633 J. Hart Κλινικη ii. v. 163 If Physitians should now imitate the Hippocraticall course of dieting, they should be utterly shent.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 89 Tho' shent their Leaves, and shatter'd are their Arms; Yet Heav'n their various Plants for use designs. View more context for this quotation
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xvii. 16 Ne personage of high or mean degree Doth care for cleanness of surtout or shirt, Though shent with Egypt's plague.
1906 A. Conan Doyle Sir Nigel v. 52 My papers have been shended and rended and cast to the wind.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > pollute or defile [verb (transitive)]
afileeOE
besmiteeOE
shenda950
befilec1000
bisulienc1200
defoulc1320
file1340
foilc1380
smota1387
lime1390
solwea1400
surda1400
infectc1425
filtha1450
poison?a1513
defile1530
polluve1533
inquinate1542
pollute1548
contaminate1563
bumfiddlec1595
impure1598
conspurcate1600
defoil1601
sullya1616
vilify1615
deturpate1623
impiate1623
defedate1628
dreg1628
contemerate1650
spot1741
empoison1775
a950 in J. Stevenson Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840) 121/40 Giþyll scendende aura corrumpens.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1725) 204 Rise & go þi ways, For þou has wette þi breke, schent is þi hernays.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 148 Vor þe leme uorroted ssolde ssende þe hole.
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 854 Who so toucheth warm pych it shent hise fyngres.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 15 Heraclius deide in þe dropesie, and was i-schend [L. depravatus] with þat heresy of þe Iacobytes.
c1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 25 She had her nose croked, the whiche shent and dysfigured her uisage.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 717/2 Syt hence, or you shall shende your clothes.
1876 J. S. Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 145 So with gore they shent His silvery locks.
c. In past participle: Overcome with fatigue; bewildered, stupefied.
ΚΠ
c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. civ. 105 He cryed after him and sayde, ‘abide me, I am negh shent of goynge.’
1828 T. Carlyle Goethe's Helena in Misc. (1840) I. 229 Boots not; for amaze hath shent me.
1905 Outlook 11 Feb. 194/2 I stood utterly shent and powerless.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > conquer or overcome
overcomeeOE
shendc893
awinc1000
overwinOE
overheaveOE
to lay downa1225
mate?c1225
discomfitc1230
win1297
dauntc1300
cumber1303
scomfit1303
fenkc1320
to bear downc1330
confoundc1330
confusec1330
to do, put arrear1330
oversetc1330
vanquishc1330
conquerc1374
overthrowc1375
oppressc1380
outfighta1382
to put downa1382
discomfortc1384
threshc1384
vencuea1400
depressc1400
venque?1402
ding?a1425
cumrayc1425
to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425
to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430
distrussc1430
supprisec1440
ascomfita1450
to do stress?c1450
victorya1470
to make (win) a conquest1477
convanquish1483
conquest1485
defeat1485
oversailc1485
conques1488
discomfish1488
fulyie1488
distress1489
overpress1489
cravent1490
utter?1533
to give (a person) the overthrow1536
debel1542
convince1548
foil1548
out-war1548
profligate1548
proflige?c1550
expugnate1568
expugn1570
victor1576
dismay1596
damnify1598
triumph1605
convict1607
overman1609
thrash1609
beat1611
debellate1611
import1624
to cut to (or in) pieces1632
maitrise1636
worst1636
forcea1641
outfight1650
outgeneral1767
to cut up1803
smash1813
slosh1890
ream1918
hammer1948
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat
shendc893
overwinOE
overheaveOE
mate?c1225
to say checkmatea1346
vanquishc1366
stightlea1375
outrayc1390
to put undera1393
forbeat1393
to shave (a person's) beardc1412
to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425
adawc1440
supprisec1440
to knock downc1450
to put to the worsta1475
waurc1475
convanquish1483
to put out1485
trima1529
convince1548
foil1548
whip1571
evict1596
superate1598
reduce1605
convict1607
defail1608
cast1610
banga1616
evince1620
worst1646
conquer1655
cuffa1657
trounce1657
to ride down1670
outdo1677
routa1704
lurcha1716
fling1790
bowl1793
lick1800
beat1801
mill1810
to row (someone) up Salt River1828
defeat1830
sack1830
skunk1832
whop1836
pip1838
throw1850
to clean out1858
take1864
wallop1865
to sock it to1877
whack1877
to clean up1888
to beat out1893
to see off1919
to lower the boom on1920
tonk1926
clobber1944
ace1950
to run into the ground1955
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. ii. x. §1 Xersis wæs þa æt twam cirrum on ðæm londe swa gescend [L. bis victus in terra].
a1175 Lamb. Hom. 21 Þu scalt gan to scrifte and pinian þine licome þe hit þe makeð don, and scenden þene deofel.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 220 Schrift schent þe deouel. hackeð of his heaued. & to dreaueð his fered.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4666 Hengist þoru wan þis lond verst was yssent.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 652 Tyl at the laste..Antonye is schent & put hym to the flyght.
c1480 (a1400) St. Justina 241 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 159 Þan ware þai fullely schent, & fore rednes fra hyre went.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2191 in Poems (1981) 83 The foxe, quhen that he saw the volff wes schent, Said to him self, ‘Thir hering sall be myne.’
1643 G. Wither Campo-Musæ 5 He that armes himselfe to this intent Shall ne're be shamed, though he may be shent.
1829 R. Southey All for Love ix. 98 The Deed is null,..A wicked instrument... Not to be pleaded in the Courts... Sir Fiend thy cause is shent!
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > be disgraced [verb (intransitive)]
to take shame1338
shenda1366
a1366 Romaunt Rose 1400 And ful of grene leues sytte That sonne myght there none discende Lest the tender grasses shende.
c1425 Cast. Persev. 283 in Macro Plays 85 For schame I stonde & schende.
c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiii. 11 Quhen body, honor, and substance schentis, And saule in perrell.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)]
to bring to noughteOE
forspillc893
fordilghec900
to bring to naughtOE
astryea1200
stroyc1200
forferec1275
misdoa1325
destroyc1330
naught1340
dingc1380
beshenda1400
devoida1400
unshapea1400
to wend downa1400
brittenc1400
unloukc1400
perishc1426
defeat1435
unmake1439
lithc1450
spend1481
kill1530
to shend ofc1540
quade1565
to make away1566
discreate1570
wrake1570
wracka1586
unwork1587
gaster1609
defease1621
unbe1624
uncreate1633
destructa1638
naufragate1648
stifle1725
stramash1788
disannul1794
destructify1841
locust1868
to knock out1944
dick1972
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [verb (transitive)]
to say or speak (one) shamec950
to bring, make to shondOE
awemOE
shamec1175
unmenskc1225
to bring, shape, turn to shamea1250
to do villainy or a villainy1303
to bring, drive to scornc1320
honisha1325
dishonesta1382
unhonourc1384
defamea1387
slandera1387
disworshipa1450
vituper1484
disfamea1533
to shend ofc1540
defect1542
dishonour1568
disgrace1573
escandalize1574
mishonour1576
yshend1579
scandalize1583
traduce1605
beclown1609
dedecorate1609
disdignify1625
vilify1651
lynch1836
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2544 For to shunt vs of shame, shend of our foos.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5249 He shot thurgh the sheltrons & shent of hor knightes.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13699 Þen Orestes..schamyt with þe schalke, that schent of his wife, And so dernely hym did dere & dispit.
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† shendv.2
Obsolete.
transitive. To shield, defend. Also absol., God shend = ‘God shield’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > protect or defend [verb (transitive)]
shieldc825
frithc893
werea900
i-schield971
berghOE
biwerec1000
grithc1000
witec1000
keepc1175
burghena1225
ward?c1225
hilla1240
warrantc1275
witiec1275
forhilla1300
umshadea1300
defendc1325
fendc1330
to hold in or to warrantc1330
bielda1350
warisha1375
succoura1387
defencea1398
shrouda1400
umbeshadow14..
shelvec1425
targec1430
protect?1435
obumber?1440
thorn1483
warrantise1490
charea1500
safeguard1501
heild?a1513
shend1530
warrant1530
shadow1548
fence1577
safekeep1588
bucklera1593
counterguard1594
save1595
tara1612
target1611
screenc1613
pre-arm1615
custodite1657
shelter1667
to guard against1725
cushion1836
enshield1855
mind1924
buffer1958
the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > expressions of remonstrance [phrase]
God, Heaven, the Lord forbid?c1225
God shield1297
God shend1530
God forshield (that‥)a1549
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 717/2 I shall shende hym agaynst all men so longe as I lyve.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 717/2 I shende, I forbyd. This verbe they use onely in the potenciall,..‘Saye you so Marye God shende’.
1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms cxix. 76 So from all ill me shend.
a1596 G. Peele Loue King Dauid & Fair Bethsabe (1599) sig. Diijv Let Dauids Harpe..sing his praise, that shendeth Dauids fame.
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. v. iii. 73 Vpreare, A brazen wall to shend thy land from feare.
1602 R. Tyrie 5 Godlie Serm. 23 To defend and shend them against all adversaries whatsoeuer.
1614 W. Browne Shepheards Pipe i. B 2 b These my harmlesse flocke of sheepe. And through all the day I tend them, And from Wolues & Foxes shend them.
1625 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Noe in tr. Part of Du Bartas 132 Thou op'nest wide thy lap to shend thy sonne from harm.
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n.c1400
v.1c825v.21530- lose the run of
- lose the run of oneself
- lose the scent
- lose the sheep dialect ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
- lose the sheep for a ha'p'orth of tar
- lose the sheep for a ha'porth of tar
- lose the thread
- lose the will to live
- lose to view
- lose touch
- lose track of
- lose weight
- lose, to do in one's block
- lose, to do one's block
- lose-all
- lose-office
- lose-time
- loseable
- loseall
- losed
- losel
- loseling
- loselism
- loselled
- loselly