hamstring

Other forms of hamstring

plural

hamstrings·

past tense or participle

hamstrung

present participle

hamstringing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hamstring

What does hamstring mean?

hamstring means "make ineffective or powerless". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hamstring?

hamstring has 2 syllables: ham-string. The stress falls on "ham". In IPA it is /ˈhæmˌstɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for hamstring?

Close synonyms include hamstring tendon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hamstring a common word?

hamstring is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hamstring?

2 words rhyme with hamstring. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.