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hamstring

hamstring is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

  2. 2transitive verb

    To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.

  3. 3noun

    one of the tendons at the back of the knee

  4. 4verb

    cripple by cutting the hamstring

  5. 5verb

    make ineffective or powerless

    "The teachers were hamstrung by the overly rigid schedules"

Common word forms

hamstringshamstringedhamstringing

Words from these letters

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