Crossword-Solution: HAMSTRING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hamstring | n. | 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. |
| Hamstring | v. t. | To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HAMSTRING | anagram | STRINGHAM |
We have 24 clues for the answer “HAMSTRING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| tendon at the back of the knee | 1 answer |
| one of the tendons at the back of the knee | 1 answer |
| make ineffective or powerless | 1 answer |
| Upper leg muscle | 1 answer |
| Tendon behind the knee | 1 answer |
| Target of pre-race stretching | 1 answer |
| Showy starlets / The "Precious", for one | 1 answer |
| Leg tendon | 1 answer |
| Knee tendon | 1 answer |
| It may be pulled on a field | 1 answer |
| A pull on one's leg? | 1 answer |
| hough | 4 answers |
| MAKE powerless | 6 answers |
| Tendon | 7 answers |
| Make ineffective. | 10 answers |
| A REFLEX EXTENSION OF THE LEG RESULTING FROM A SHARP TAP ON THE PATELLAR TENDON | 10 answers |
| Hock | 17 answers |
| Muscle | 23 answers |
| Cripple | 39 answers |
| Impair | 52 answers |
| Thwart | 55 answers |
| Incapacitate | 55 answers |
| Disable | 67 answers |
| Hinder | 71 answers |
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Sentences with HAMSTRING (5)
Subsequently he was captured by guerillas in Missouri and tortured by burning splinters of wood, the cicatrices of which he exhibited; he escaped to Florida, where he was struck by a fragment of an exploding shell, which passed from without inward, behind the hamstring on the right leg, and remained embedded and could be plainly felt.
And now, Tom Faggus, be off, if you please, and think yourself lucky to go so; and if ever that horse comes into our yard, I'll hamstring him myself if none of my cowards dare do it.' Everybody looked at mother, to hear her talk like that, knowing how quiet she was day by day and how pleasant to be cheated.
Sometime, great Agamemnon, Thy topless deputation he puts on; And like a strutting player whose conceit Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich To hear the wooden dialogue and sound ’Twixt his stretch’d footing and the scaffoldage— Such to-be-pitied and o’er-wrested seeming He acts thy greatness in; and when he speaks ’Tis like a chime a-mending; with terms unsquar’d, Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp’d, Would seem hyperboles.
Wolf, like a furry whirlwind, had stopped only long enough to slash her bleeding nose to the bone; and now was tearing away at her hind leg in an industrious and very promising effort to hamstring her.
The cutlers don't poison cows, and hamstring horses, and tie them to fire; the cutlers don't fling little boys into water-pits, and knock down little girls with their fists, just because their fathers are non-Union men; the cutlers don't strew poisoned apples and oranges about, to destroy whole families like rats.
Quotes with HAMSTRING (3)
He was so pumped, jumping up and down on the spot, showing off the taut lean muscles in his quads and calves so different to the bulkiness of a lot of the other players. He bristled with energy, shaking out his arms, flicking his fingers. Flicking off invisible globules of testosterone so powerful she could feel their pull all the way up here. He dropped his head from side to side to work his traps, bending at the waist right in front of the box to execute a perfect hamstring stretch. Ooh la freaking la.
[James M. Buchanan] directed hostility toward college students, public employees, recipients of any kind of government assistance, and liberal intellectuals. His intellectual lineage went back to such bitter establishment opponents of Populism as the social Darwinists Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner. The battle between "the oppressed and their oppressors," as one People's Party publication had termed it in 1892, was redefined in his milieu: "the working masses who p…
Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily workouts. Think of your laptop as a machine like the one at the gym where you open and close your inner thighs in front of everyone, exposing both your insecurities and your genitals. Because that is what writing is all about.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1988–2023).