shend

Etymology

From Middle English shenden, 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.

verb

1. (obsolete) To disgrace or put to shame.
2. (archaic) To blame.
3. (archaic) To destroy; to spoil.
   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.
   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