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Thwarting
Answer for the clue "Thwarting ", 12 letters:
hamstringing
Word definitions for hamstringing in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hamstring \Ham"string`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hamstrung ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hamstringing . See String .] 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of hamstring English)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hamstringing is a method of crippling a person or animal so that they cannot walk properly by severing the hamstring tendons in the thigh of the individual. It is used as a method of torture , or to incapacitate the victim.
Usage examples of hamstringing.
Beside them were the ship's boys, also joyfully gutting ticks, and hamstringing and "neutering" the curs with their razor-sharp knives.
Working down beside the dogs, they'd killed ticks, while hamstringing and "neutering" the curs with their razor-sharp knives.
Emitting their horrific battle cries, they sped along the rearmost rank, slashing the horses' haunches or hamstringing them or rearing to sink long claws into men's arms or legs and drag them from the pitching backs of their crazed mounts.
You did a beautiful job of hamstringing, especially, as you had no fang-spurs.
As the sentry turned to strike, William swept his blade downward from the shield, slashing the back of the man's leg, hamstringing him.
James dodged to one side and cut at the back of her leg, hamstringing her.
The other dropped his lance to draw sword and cut at the Hyeme woman who darted in to swing a hamstringing axe at his mount's hock.
The Hyeme were going for the Arkan horses, hamstringing, slitting girths, stabbing bellies.
He could not stop Wulfgar, short of hamstringing the man with a scimitar.
The second offense was to be punished by hamstringing and abandonment.