Crossword clues for hamstrung
hamstrung
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 of the subject by
seeking to effeminate us all at home.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
restricted as if by being crippled with a hamstring. v
(en-past of: hamstring)
WordNet
See hamstring
n. one of the tendons at the back of the knee [syn: hamstring tendon]
[also: hamstrung]
v. make ineffective or powerless; "The teachers were hamstrung by the overly rigid schedules"
cripple by cutting the hamstring
[also: hamstrung]
Usage examples of "hamstrung".
It set its eyes on the next man, one of the plainclothes SI detectives, and hamstrung him with a slash of its jaws.
The hamstrung officer lay on the floor screaming, and the other man, the one who'd had his spine ripped out, was choking and twitching, unable to draw in a breath.
She rolled to her front, but she'd been hamstrung, and her legs were now useless weight.
He did not dare to give Yabu a moment's respite to detect the enormous flaw in his argument: that if Ishido was hamstrung now and did not have power, then Toranaga's head on a wooden platter would be of enormous value to Ishido and thus to Yabu.