shend

verb /ʃɛnd/

1. To disgrace or put to shame.

   obsolete

   He would not shend

   Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight

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.

Where it comes from

From Middle English schenden, 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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry shend (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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