Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - hamstring
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Hamstring
hamstring
(hamstrings, hamstringing, hamstrung) 1. A hamstring is a length of tissue or tendon behind your knee which joins the muscles of your thigh to the bones of your lower leg. Webster has not played since suffering a hamstring injury in the opening game. N-COUNT 2. If you hamstring someone, you make it very difficult for them to take any action. If he becomes the major opposition leader, he could hamstring a conservative-led coalition. VERB: V n
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I. noun Date: 1565 1. a. either of two groups of tendons at the back of the human knee b. any of three muscles at the back of the thigh that function to flex and rotate the leg and extend the thigh 2. a large tendon above and behind the hock of a quadruped II. transitive verb (hamstrung; ~ing) Date: 1641 1. to make ineffective or powerless ; cripple hamstrung by guilt 2. to cripple by cutting the leg tendons ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. Anat. --n. 1 each of five tendons at the back of the knee in humans. 2 the great tendon at the back of the hock in quadrupeds. --v.tr. (past and past part. hamstrung or hamstringed) 1 cripple by cutting the hamstrings of (a person or animal). 2 prevent the activity or efficiency of (a person or enterprise). ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. анат. подколенное сухожилие 2. ахиллово сухожилие (у четвероногих) 3. перерезать подколенное сухожилие 4. калечить; портить 5. срывать, сводить на нет 6. подрезать крылья ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun подколенное сухожилие 2. v. 1) подрезать поджилки 2) fig. подрезать крылья; резко ослаблять; калечить ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n a tendon behind your knee ~2 v past tense and past participle hamstrung T often passive to restrict someone's activities or development so much that they cannot do the job they are supposed to do (Police officers claim that they are hamstrung by regulations and paperwork.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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