shend

English - Turkish

Definition of shend in English Turkish dictionary

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to blame

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English - English

Definition of shend in English English dictionary

to destroy, to spoil

Late C14: Þou seyest, riȝt as womes shende a tree, / Riȝt so a wyf destroyeþ hire housbounde — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath's Tale’, Canterbury Tales.

to blame

to disgrace or put to shame

{v} to ruin, spoil, overpower, disgrace

To injure, mar, spoil, or harm

To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame

shent

Etymology

[ 'shend ] (transitive verb.) before 12th century. From Middle English shenden, from Old English scendan (“to put to shame, blame, disgrace”), from Proto-Germanic *skandjanan, *skamdjanan (“to scold, berate”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kem- (“to cover”). Cognate with Dutch schenden (“to infringe, profane, defile”), German schänden (“defile”), Danish skænde (“defile”), Gothic