Thesaurus / hamstrung
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synonyms for hamstrung
- handicapped
- infirm
- paralyzed
- weakened
- wounded
- confined
- disarmed
- hurt
- lame
- maimed
- sidelined
- stalled
- wrecked
- broken-down
- decrepit
- helpless
- incapable
- laid-up
- out of action
- out-of-commission
- powerless
- run down
- worn-out
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How to use hamstrung in a sentence
A wolf would have hamstrung his opponent and killed him at his leisure; but foxes rarely fight to the death.
WILD FOLKSAMUEL SCOVILLEThis was done; he was hamstrung, and then set on a certain small island near the shore, called Sævarstad.
THE ELDER EDDAS OF SAEMUND SIGFUSSON; AND THE YOUNGER EDDAS OF SNORRE STURLESONSAEMUND SIGFUSSON AND SNORRE STURLESONWasn't it going to be nice to live in a world without punctured eardrums and hamstrung nerves?
CUE FOR QUIETTHOMAS L. SHERREDFor many minutes the bull stood motionless, his hamstrung quarter sinking lower and lower.
KAZANJAMES OLIVER CURWOODPaphnutius, besides, came limping on one leg, his left having been hamstrung.
THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS, VOLUME 03VARIOUSThe term used by the herders in these cases is that the cattle were "hamstrung," the tendons of the legs being severed.
THE AWAKENING OF THE DESERTJULIUS C. BIRGEOne rushed up and hamstrung the beast, while still standing, by a blow with an axe.
MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICADAVID LIVINGSTONEMurray had no less than four horses either speared, hamstrung, or clubbed—a circumstance almost unexampled.
THE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGNS, 1882 TO 1885CHARLES ROYLEBut it was found that the Raja's servants, by way of making quite sure, had first hamstrung the poor antelope!
BEAST AND MAN IN INDIAJOHN LOCKWOOD KIPLINGGetting up close behind the still fighting wild deer, with one stroke of their weapons they hamstrung the brave creatures.
THE YOUNG RAJAHW.H.G. KINGSTONWORDS RELATED TO HAMSTRUNG
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