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hamstrung
[ ham-struhng ]
adjective
- having been made powerless or useless; thwarted:
The candidates also face a housing market crisis, subway strikes, and a hamstrung government.
- having had the hamstring tendon cut:
She fell like a hamstrung deer.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of hamstring ( def ).
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hamstrung1
Example Sentences
Democratic leaders are hamstrung by the lack of meaningful power to disrupt Trump.
Rather than assemble a soup-to-nuts tale hamstrung by chronology, he shrewdly offers up her story as an all-star revue about her ascent.
Even with more than 10,000 firefighters battling the flames, ground crews in L.A. have said they were overwhelmed, and planes that spray fire retardant were often hamstrung by the winds.
The firm's production was hamstrung in 2024, first by serious concerns over quality control, both in its own facilities and at a key supplier.
Since the start of the 2022-23 season the club have been hamstrung by strict spending constraints and they are the only Premier League side during that period with a positive net spend - of £80m.
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