英和和英

語源

ham (“region back of the knee joint”) +‎ string

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/
• 韻: -æmstɹɪŋ

名詞

hamstring (複数形 hamstrings)

1. (anatomy) 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. (informal) The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.

   Synonyms: hams, hammy, hammie

   • 2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:

     Developing muscle around both sides of a joint (think biceps かつ triceps, abs かつ low back, quads かつ hamstrings) should be one of your primary training considerations because strength on each side leads to lower injury rates.

動詞

hamstring (三人称単数 現在形 hamstrings, 現在分詞 hamstringing, 過去形および過去分詞形 hamstrung または hamstringed)

1. (transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.

   Synonyms: hock, hough, hox

2. (transitive, figuratively) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. [from 1640s]

   Synonyms: cripple, incapacitate, disable

   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:

     So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home.

   • 2017 July 17, Martin Lukacs, “Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Its trademark policies of privatization, deregulation, tax cuts and free trade deals: these have liberated corporations to accumulate enormous profits and treat the atmosphere like a sewage dump, and hamstrung our ability, through the instrument of the state, to plan for our collective welfare.

上位語

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アナグラム

• Stringham