hamstrung 的 2 个定义
- any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- the great tendon at the back of the hock.
ham·strung, ham·string·ing.
- to disable by cutting the hamstring or hamstrings; cripple.
- to render powerless or useless; thwart: Their efforts were hamstrung by stubborn pride.
hamstrung 近义词
disable
更多hamstrung例句
- Consumers, hamstrung by low confidence and a weak recovery, are reluctant to spend and borrow.
- Quinn has at times seemed hamstrung about how to address the issue of gender.
- Hamstrung by the lower standards of the boom years, it reported that it was still coping with the overhang of the bubble.
- But Netanyahu may be hamstrung by a lack of international support, reports Dan Ephron.
- The book presents a nightmare: socialists have taken over, and they keep anyone the least bit creative hamstrung with regulations.
- A wolf would have hamstrung his opponent and killed him at his leisure; but foxes rarely fight to the death.
- This was done; he was hamstrung, and then set on a certain small island near the shore, called Sævarstad.
- Wasn't it going to be nice to live in a world without punctured eardrums and hamstrung nerves?
- For many minutes the bull stood motionless, his hamstrung quarter sinking lower and lower.
- Paphnutius, besides, came limping on one leg, his left having been hamstrung.