英和和英

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/
• 韻: -æmstɹɪŋ

名詞

hamstring (plural 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.
   • 2021 October 20, C. J. Chivers, “Fear on Cape Cod as Sharks Hunt Again”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 February 2022:

     Lanctot slipped the tourniquet around the other, just under his groin, and twisted it tight, clamping quadriceps and hamstring hard to bone.

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 and triceps, abs and low back, quads and hamstrings) should be one of your primary training considerations because strength on each side leads to lower injury rates.

動詞

hamstring (third-person singular simple present hamstrings, present participle hamstringing, simple past and past participle hamstrung or hamstringed)

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

   Synonyms: hock, hough, hox

2. (transitive, figurative) 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 Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →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, archived from the original on 31 August 2020:

     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

• See Thesaurus:disable

派生語

アナグラム

• Stringham