hamstring

Meaning of hamstring

noun
  1. 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. The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.
verb
  1. To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.
  2. To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.

Information about hamstring

  • The plural form of hamstring is: hamstrings.
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Hyphenation of hamstring

ham-string

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • hamstring is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

hamstring synonyms

Meaning :

hams, hock, hough, hox, cripple, disable, incapacitate

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