hamstring
/ˈhæm·strɪŋ/ v [T] (past tense and past participle hamstrung /ˈhæm·strʌŋ/) (PREVENT)Definition
› to prevent an activity, or to block the effectiveness of someone or something: The company is hamstrung by its traditional but inefficient ways of doing business.
(Definition of hamstring v (PREVENT) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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