shend

1. (obsolete) To disgrace or put to shame.Examples: "Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend"; "Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?"obsolete

2. (archaic) To blame.archaic

3. (archaic) To destroy; to spoil.Examples: "Go see their fleet and arms, their manner view / of moulded metal, ready all to shend[.]"archaic

4. (archaic) To overpower; to surpass.Examples: "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."; "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."archaic