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Definition of Shend
1. v. t. To injure, mar, spoil, or harm.
Definition of Shend
1. Verb. (obsolete) to disgrace or put to shame ¹
2. Verb. (archaic) to blame ¹
3. Verb. (archaic) to destroy, to spoil ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shend
1. to disgrace [v SHENT, SHENDING, SHENDS] - See also: disgrace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shend
Literary usage of Shend
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"He accordingly entered into correspondence with the elector of Hanover, who, on
his accession as George I, appointed Town- shend Secretary of State, 1714. ..."
2. A Students' History of the United States by Edward Channing (1919)
"The Town- shend Acts, 1767. Chan- ning's United States, III, ch. iv; Fiske's
Revolution, I, 28-32. that Mansfield and Grenville were right in asserting that ..."
3. Blind Alley: Being the Picture of a Very Gallant Gentleman; the Adventures by Walter Lionel George (1919)
"And ringed about by a foul Eastern river, stinking with mud and corpses, cut off
as Gordon in Khartoum, Town- shend in Kut, penned in as a wild boar at bay ..."
4. The Pottery of Lerna IV by Jeremy B. Rutter (1995)
"Single shend. D. not measurable. Shape form and type not precisely determinable.
... 9b Body shend. Single shend. P1. 9b D. not measurable. ..."
5. Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second: From His Accession to the Death by John Hervey Hervey, John Wilson Croker (1848)
"... Thomas Hanmer—Congress of Soissons—Rupture between Walpole and Town- shend—Its
causes—Character of Townshend—Houghton—Townshend Party—Miss Skerrett. ..."
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