Word Meanings - SHEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

disgrace, dishonor, shame; akin to G. schande, Goth. skanda. See 1. To injure, mar, spoil, or harm. "Loss of time shendeth us." Chaucer. I fear my body will be shent. Dryden. 2. To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or

Additional info about word: SHEND

disgrace, dishonor, shame; akin to G. schande, Goth. skanda. See 1. To injure, mar, spoil, or harm. "Loss of time shendeth us." Chaucer. I fear my body will be shent. Dryden. 2. To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame. R. Browning. The famous name of knighthood foully shend. Spenser. She passed the rest as Cynthia doth shend The lesser stars. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to SHEND)

• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• REVILEMENT
  The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser.
• BLAME
  LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• INJURE
  To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander,
• DEGRADEMENT
  Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton.
• REVILE
  Reproach; reviling. The gracious Judge, without revile, replied. Milton.
• SPOILER
  1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
• SPOILSMAN
  One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public
• SPOILABLE
  Capable of being spoiled.
• DISHONOR
  The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
• DEGRADE
  To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.
• REPROACHFUL
  1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak. 2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. Syn.
• SHENT
  obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Shend, for shendeth. Chaucer.
• REPROACHLESS
  Being without reproach.
• DISGRACE
  1. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. Macduff lives in disgrace. Shak. 2. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor
• DISHONORABLE
  1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. 2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more
• DISGRACER
  One who disgraces.
• SHAMEFACED
  Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise. Dryden. Note: Shamefaced was once shamefast, shamefacedness was shamefastness, like steadfast and steadfastness;
• DISBLAME
  To clear from blame. Chaucer.
• SPOIL
  1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
• REPROACH
  LL. reproriare; L. pref. re- again, against, back + prope near; hence, originally, to bring near to, throw in one's teeth. Cf. 1. To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. I thought your
• IRREPROACHABLY
  In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.
• ASHAMEDLY
  Bashfully.
• IRREPROACHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence.
• ASHAMED
  Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." Wyclif. All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting