HAMSTRUNG

HAMSTRING

hamstring

(verb) cripple by cutting the hamstring

hamstring

(verb) make ineffective or powerless; “The teachers were hamstrung by the overly rigid schedules”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

hamstrung (comparative more hamstrung, superlative most hamstrung)

(figurative) Restricted as if by being crippled with a hamstring.

Verb

hamstrung

simple past tense and past participle of hamstring

Source: Wiktionary


HAMSTRING

Ham"string`, n. (Anat.)

Definition: One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

Ham"string`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hamstrung; p. pr. & vb. n. Hamstringing. See String.]

Definition: To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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