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hamstrung

[ham-struhng]

adjective

  1. having been made powerless or useless; thwarted.

    The candidates also face a housing market crisis, subway strikes, and a hamstrung government.

  2. having had the hamstring tendon cut.

    She fell like a hamstrung deer.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of hamstring.

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He would often complain that the police were hamstrung by "woke" policies that wouldn't allow them to take the gloves off.

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The only possible source for constructive criticism the narcissist-in-chief might hear is from the right-wing press — but they're hamstrung by audiences who don't want to listen to it, either.

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Democratic leaders are hamstrung by the lack of meaningful power to disrupt Trump.

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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.

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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.

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