Sekirov Dictionary

hamstring

/ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/

noun 2
verb 2
forms 4

noun2

•
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.
- Lanctot slipped the tourniquet around the other, just under his groin, and twisted it tight, clamping quadriceps and hamstring hard to bone. — 2021
The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.

verb2

To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.
•
(figurative) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
- So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home. — 1641

forms

hamstringed · hamstrung · hamstringing · hamstrings

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