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As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.
Christopher Moore

Meaning of "hamstrung" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HAMSTRUNG

hamstrung  [ˈhæmˌstrʌŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HAMSTRUNG

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hamstrung is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb hamstrung in English.

WHAT DOES HAMSTRUNG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hamstrung

Hamstringing

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.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO HAMSTRUNG

PRESENT

Present
I hamstring
you hamstring
he/she/it hamstrings
we hamstring
you hamstring
they hamstring
Present continuous
I am hamstringing
you are hamstringing
he/she/it is hamstringing
we are hamstringing
you are hamstringing
they are hamstringing
Present perfect
I have hamstrung
you have hamstrung
he/she/it has hamstrung
we have hamstrung
you have hamstrung
they have hamstrung
Present perfect continuous
I have been hamstringing
you have been hamstringing
he/she/it has been hamstringing
we have been hamstringing
you have been hamstringing
they have been hamstringing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I hamstrung
you hamstrung
he/she/it hamstrung
we hamstrung
you hamstrung
they hamstrung
Past continuous
I was hamstringing
you were hamstringing
he/she/it was hamstringing
we were hamstringing
you were hamstringing
they were hamstringing
Past perfect
I had hamstrung
you had hamstrung
he/she/it had hamstrung
we had hamstrung
you had hamstrung
they had hamstrung
Past perfect continuous
I had been hamstringing
you had been hamstringing
he/she/it had been hamstringing
we had been hamstringing
you had been hamstringing
they had been hamstringing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will hamstring
you will hamstring
he/she/it will hamstring
we will hamstring
you will hamstring
they will hamstring
Future continuous
I will be hamstringing
you will be hamstringing
he/she/it will be hamstringing
we will be hamstringing
you will be hamstringing
they will be hamstringing
Future perfect
I will have hamstrung
you will have hamstrung
he/she/it will have hamstrung
we will have hamstrung
you will have hamstrung
they will have hamstrung
Future perfect continuous
I will have been hamstringing
you will have been hamstringing
he/she/it will have been hamstringing
we will have been hamstringing
you will have been hamstringing
they will have been hamstringing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would hamstrung
you would hamstrung
he/she/it would hamstrung
we would hamstrung
you would hamstrung
they would hamstrung
Conditional continuous
I would be hamstringing
you would be hamstringing
he/she/it would be hamstringing
we would be hamstringing
you would be hamstringing
they would be hamstringing
Conditional perfect
I would have hamstrung
you would have hamstrung
he/she/it would have hamstrung
we would have hamstrung
you would have hamstrung
they would have hamstrung
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been hamstringing
you would have been hamstringing
he/she/it would have been hamstringing
we would have been hamstringing
you would have been hamstringing
they would have been hamstringing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you hamstring
we let´s hamstring
you hamstring
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to hamstring
Past participle
hamstrung
Present Participle
hamstringing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HAMSTRUNG


high-strung
ˌhaɪˈstrʌŋ
overstrung
ˌəʊvəˈstrʌŋ
re-strung
ˌriːˈstrʌŋ
rung
rʌŋ
sprung
sprʌŋ
strung
strʌŋ
unsprung
ʌnˈsprʌŋ
unstrung
ʌnˈstrʌŋ
unwrung
ʌnˈrʌŋ
upsprung
ˈʌpˌsprʌŋ
wrung
rʌŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HAMSTRUNG

hamshackle
hamster
hamstring
hamstring injury
Hamsun
hamular
hamulate
hamuli
hamulose
hamulous
hamulus
hamza
hamzah

WORDS THAT END LIKE HAMSTRUNG

Bandung
Belitung
bung
clung
dung
flung
Hertzsprung
highly strung
hung
interior-sprung
Jung
lung
mung
quersprung
sung
swung
Taichung
unsung
with young
young

Synonyms and antonyms of hamstrung in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HAMSTRUNG»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hamstrung» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hamstrung

Translation of «hamstrung» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HAMSTRUNG

Find out the translation of hamstrung to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hamstrung from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hamstrung» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

陷于瘫痪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

paralizado
570 millions of speakers

English

hamstrung
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पंगु
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عاجزا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хромает
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hamstrung
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

paralysés
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hamstrung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gelähmt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

身動き
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

묶였다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hamstrung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hamstrung
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முடக்கப்பட்ட நிலையிலுள்ள
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हॅमस्ट्रुंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iş yapamaz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ostacolati
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sparaliżowana
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кульгає
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hamstrung
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δέσμια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gekniehalter
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lamslås
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hamstrung
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hamstrung

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HAMSTRUNG»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HAMSTRUNG» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hamstrung

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4 QUOTES WITH «HAMSTRUNG»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hamstrung.
1
Ben Bernanke
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
2
Trey Gowdy
There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.
3
Christopher Moore
As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.
4
Andy Richter
If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAMSTRUNG»

Discover the use of hamstrung in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hamstrung and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
English Irregular Verbs: Master 250 irregular verbs in English
Master 250 irregular verbs in English TZ-one. HAMSTRING Mode Indicative Tense Simple Present Present Perfect Simple Past Past Perfect I hamstring have hamstrung hamstrung had hamstrung you hamstring have hamstrung hamstrung  ...
TZ-one, 2013
2
John 11-21
Letter 151.50 Christ the Hamstrung Bull. Hippolytus: “In their anger they killed men, in their passion they hamstrung a bull.”51 This he says regarding the conspiracy into which they were to enter against the Lord. . . . By the “strong bull” he ...
Joel C. Elowsky, 2007
3
Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories
“Is a private doctor going to bestir himself at this time of the night?” said the man hamstrung by life. Said the son, “By the time we arrive he'll have woken up.” So Shadwan the son and Shadwan the hamstrung by life both rose to their feet in one ...
Denys Johnson-Davies, 2014
4
The Jewish Study Bible: Jewish Publication Society Tanakh ...
'1David captured 1,700 horsemen and 2o,ooo foot soldiers of his force; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, except for 100 which he retained. 5 And when the Arameans of Damascus came to the aid of King Hadadezer of Zobah, David ...
Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler, Michael A. Fishbane, 2004
5
David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King
Second, the hamstrung captive horses, if not entirely fictitious, were likely put to some other, peaceable, use, probably in agriculture and haulage, but especially breeding. As it happens, a simple incision damaging a single front flexor tendon,  ...
Baruch Halpern, 2004
6
The Book of Genesis: Chapters 18-50
The only phrase that lacks a clear reference is at will they hamstrung an ox. Heb. ' iqq'ru (hamstrung) refers to an act of crippling, but not execution. R. Peter describes the process as follows: "It involves the practice of provoking paralysis by ...
Victor P. Hamilton, 1995
7
Up: A Novel
Here a knock at the door. "Hamstrung, for christ sake! Why the hell don't you send up some heat?" A tall, bony, blue-eyed Swede, with hair as red as a radish and skin pale as a cadaver. Janitor's overalls and a dirty T-shirt that showed his long,  ...
Ronald Sukenick, 1998
8
The Times of the Judges: Occupying the Land
They also hamstrung the horses. In those days, a horse was almost exclusively a military machine. A horse was no good to a civilian because a farmer plowed with oxen or by hand-powered mattock. If the horses were hamstrung in the heat of ...
Gordon C. Krantz, 2013
9
Christina Stead
The picture of 'The Sons of Clovis', hamstrung and drifting down a river toward their deaths, strikes Michael and his paralysed friend Kol Blount as an emblem of themselves. When we know that the sons of Clovis, whose picture hangs in the ...
Diana Brydon, 1987
10
Garner's Modern American Usage
Hamstrung is the settled past-tense and pastparticipial form. Although this form has no etymological basis—that is, the verb comes from the noun hamstring and not from any form of the verb string (we don't “string the ham”)—the past tense ...
Bryan Garner, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HAMSTRUNG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hamstrung is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Hamstrung Red Devils outplayed by Narrabri
Gunnedah's Alistair Buchanan muscles in on a Narrabri attacker during last weekend's first grade match. A bruising trip north hit Gunnedah ... «Namoi Valley Independent, Jul 15»
2
Now Worth $10 Billion, Is WeWork a 2000 Redux?
When the tech bubble burst, so did demand and revenue, leaving the companies hamstrung by long-term leases and debt. Revenue at HQ, for ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
J&J Lifts Earnings Outlook Despite Stronger Dollar,
Meanwhile, the strengthening of the U.S. dollar against foreign currencies has hamstrung J&J and many of its health-care peers in recent ... «Nasdaq, Jul 15»
4
Fastenal 2Q profit rises 7.5%
Fastenal Co. reported a 7.5 percent jump in second-quarter profit despite being hamstrung by fewer orders from oil and gas customers. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
5
2015 NFL fantasy football predictions: Julius Thomas, Allen …
With only one drop last year out of 76 targets, Robinson will be hamstrung by a relatively young offense and a quarterback in Bortles who will ... «Big Cat Country, Jul 15»
6
CompaniesJapan's Horiba buys piece of UK motoring history
Mira, which is in the final stages of a six-year turnround plan, had for several years been hamstrung by the pension deficit from two defined ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
7
Why Being Governor Doesn't Prepare Scott Walker for the Presidency
A president who isn't able to exert his will through the bureaucracy is a president who is hamstrung in his ability to make policy and potentially ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
8
Crude slides further on Iran nuclear deal; top 10 stocks to bet on
Matters are more complicated in India because the public sector OMCs are still hamstrung by government interference. While the oil companies ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
9
Is Edge Computing Key to the Internet of Things?
Furthermore, traffic lights that can make their own decisions aren't hamstrung by network outages or limited connectivity. “We're moving the ... «Government Technology, Jul 15»
10
SEC Needs to Crack Down on Pranksters
To the extent that the SEC is hamstrung to do anything, it will embolden thieves and sneaks to continue to do these kinds of things. Maybe over ... «TheStreet.com, Jul 15»

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