"hamstring" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav Forms: hamstrings [plural]
Rhymes: -æmstɹɪŋ Etymology: From ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|ham|string|gloss1=region back of the knee joint|id1=anatomy, hock, behind knee}} ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string Head templates: {{en-noun}} hamstring (plural hamstrings)
  1. (anatomy) 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. Translations (great tendon): وَتَر اَلْمَأْبَض (watar al-maʔbaḍ) [masculine] (Arabic), колянно сухожилие (koljanno suhožilie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), podkolenní šlacha (Czech), hase (Danish), takareiden lihas (Finnish), ischio-jambier [masculine] (French), Hüftgelenkextensoren [masculine, plural] (German), Kniesehne [feminine] (German), ischiocrurale Muskulatur [feminine] (German), rückseitige Oberschenkelmuskulatur [feminine] (German), térdín (Hungarian), teannán ioscaide [masculine] (Irish), ハムストリング (hamusutoringu) (Japanese), 햄스트링 (haemseuteuring) (Korean), mūsculus ischiocrūrālis [masculine] (Latin), iohere kātete (Maori), Hakesän [feminine] (Plautdietsch), ścięgno udowe [neuter] (Polish), подколе́нное сухожи́лие (podkolénnoje suxožílije) [neuter] (Russian), поджи́лки (podžílki) [colloquial, feminine, plural] (Russian), isquiotibial [masculine] (Spanish), músculo isquiotibial [masculine] (Spanish), knäsena [common-gender] (Swedish), hassena [common-gender] (Swedish), litid sa alakalakan (Tagalog), llinyn y gar [masculine] (Welsh), karra-gora (Woiwurrung)
    Sense id: en-hamstring-en-noun-6rAcuWte Categories (other): Anatomy Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'great tendon': 74 26
  2. (informal) The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles. Tags: informal Synonyms: hams, hammy, hammie
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Verb

IPA: /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav Forms: hamstrings [present, singular, third-person], hamstringing [participle, present], hamstrung [participle, past], hamstrung [past], hamstringed [participle, past], hamstringed [past]
Rhymes: -æmstɹɪŋ Etymology: From ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|ham|string|gloss1=region back of the knee joint|id1=anatomy, hock, behind knee}} ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string Head templates: {{en-verb|~s|~ing|hamstrung,~ed}} hamstring (third-person singular simple present hamstrings, present participle hamstringing, simple past and past participle hamstrung or hamstringed)
  1. (transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough. Tags: transitive Synonyms: hock, hough, hox
    Sense id: en-hamstring-en-verb-PULAwwUt
  2. (transitive, figurative) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. Tags: figuratively, transitive Synonyms: cripple, incapacitate, disable Translations (to disable): عَقَرَ (ʕaqara) (Arabic), осакатявам (osakatjavam) (Bulgarian), контузвам (kontuzvam) (Bulgarian), ochromit [perfective] (Czech), paralyzovat (Czech), lamaannuttaa (Finnish), rampauttaa (Finnish), paralyser (French), speir (Irish), subnervō (Latin), سڭیرلمك (siñirlemek) (Ottoman Turkish), krępować [imperfective] (Polish), skrępować [perfective] (Polish), ograniczać [imperfective] (Polish), ograniczyć [perfective] (Polish), paraliżować [imperfective] (Polish), sparaliżować [perfective] (Polish), sinirlemek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-hamstring-en-verb-YbB0V9uy Disambiguation of 'to disable': 31 69
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: disable Derived forms: hamstringer

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2017 July 17, Martin Lukacs, “Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Its trademark policies of privatization, deregulation, tax cuts and free trade deals: these have liberated corporations to accumulate enormous profits and treat the atmosphere like a sewage dump, and hamstrung our ability, through the instrument of the state, to plan for our collective welfare.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cripple",
          "cripple"
        ],
        [
          "incapacitate",
          "incapacitate"
        ],
        [
          "disable",
          "disable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cripple"
        },
        {
          "word": "incapacitate"
        },
        {
          "word": "disable"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a7/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a7/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æmstɹɪŋ"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "lang_code": "ar",
      "roman": "ʕaqara",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "عَقَرَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "osakatjavam",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "осакатявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "kontuzvam",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "контузвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ochromit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "paralyzovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "lamaannuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "rampauttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "paralyser"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "speir"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "subnervō"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "lang_code": "ota",
      "roman": "siñirlemek",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "سڭیرلمك"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "krępować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "skrępować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ograniczać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ograniczyć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "paraliżować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "sparaliżować"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "sinirlemek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hamstring"
}

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