Definition of "shend"

shend

/ʃɛnd/

verb
third-person singular simple present shends, present participle shending, simple past and past participle shent
1. (obsolete) To disgrace or put to shame.
  Quotations
  Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?
  c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene ii]
2. (archaic) To blame.
3. (archaic) To destroy; to spoil.
  Quotations
  Go see their fleet and arms, their manner view / of moulded metal, ready all to shend[.]
  1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 279
4. (archaic) To overpower; to surpass.
  Quotations
  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.
  1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 339