shend

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To disgrace or put to shame. obsolete
    — Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend
  2. To blame. archaic
  3. To destroy; to spoil. archaic
    — Go see their fleet and arms, their manner view / of moulded metal, ready all to shend[.]
  4. To overpower; to surpass. archaic
    — 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.

词形变化

shends present,singular,third-person shending participle,present shent participle,past shent past

词汇关系

衍生词
shendship toshend

词源

From Middle English shenden, from Old English sċendan (“to put to shame, blame, disgrace”), from Proto-West Germanic *skandijan (“to scold, berate”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kem- (“to cover”). Cognate with Dutch schenden (“to infringe, profane, defile”), German schänden (“defile”). Related to Old English sċand (“infamy, shame, scandal”). More at shand, shame.
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