hamstring
noun
(in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
are hamstringing
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present progressiveof hamstring.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Challenges to get it done include market conditions that are hamstringing other planned real estate developments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
Los Angeles' able and crusading Chief William Parker, who has often complained bitterly that the courts are hamstringing his men, said 'that the decision will not require any changes in his department.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are hamstringing me and every General in the field—by suspending the death penalty of our Courts-Martial.
From A Man of the People A Drama of Abraham Lincoln by Thomas Dixon
