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hamstrung
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hamstrung as in:  hamstrung by excessive rules

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  • BY DINNERTIME, my shoulders and hamstrings had tightened.†  (source)
  • "After you eat dirt, you mean," she says, bending forward to stretch out her hamstrings.†  (source)
  • Holding her towel in one hand, she reached for the jar, scooped some into her palm, and slid her hand down her pants to rub it into her hamstring.†  (source)
    hamstring = make less effective or powerless
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  • They pulled at the hamstrings, cut at the back legs until the bull couldn't stand and as he caved in and settled on his rear the wolves became frantic and started tearing at his rear end, opening the bull while he was still alive, ripping at the rear leg muscles and the anus, each bite opening the wound more until blood was all over the snow and the wolves were covered with it.†  (source)
    hamstrings = makes less effective or powerless
  • I'd hamstring any one of my brothers who tried.†  (source)
    hamstring = make less effective or powerless
  • Hamstrung, the old old man foundered to his knees, as did his suppliant images, his congregation of terrified selves one week, one month, two years, twenty, fifty, seventy, ninety years from now!†  (source)
    Hamstrung = made less effective or powerless
  • He shook the water off and bounded after the running man, hamstringing him with a single snap of his teeth, and going for the throat as the screaming man slid back down toward the water.†  (source)
    hamstringing = making less effective or powerless
  • Hamstrings.†  (source)
    Hamstrings = makes less effective or powerless
  • Then I see it: the ticker running across the bottom of the screen tells me that the government is facing a challenge to legal aid cuts and that Fernando Torres will be out for up to four weeks with a hamstring strain and that the suspect in the Megan Hipwell disappearance has been released without charge.†  (source)
    hamstring = make less effective or powerless
  • Luma would have liked to practice corner kicks, penalty kicks, and free kicks, specific situations in which the Fugees needed improvement badly, but she was hamstrung by the failure of the YMCA to come through with those soccer goals.†  (source)
    hamstrung = made less effective or powerless
  • They were hamstringing mankind.†  (source)
    hamstringing = making less effective or powerless
  • Stretch your hamstrings, like so.†  (source)
    hamstrings = makes less effective or powerless
  • I massage a spasm from my hamstring as I march past the twelfth floor, and try to recover some of my lost air.†  (source)
    hamstring = make less effective or powerless
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