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  1. Hamstringing

    Hamstringing is a method of crippling a person or animal so that they cannot walk properly by severing the hamstring tendons in the thigh of the individual. It is used as a method of torture, or to incapacitate the victim.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hamstringing

    of Hamstring

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  1. Hamstringing

    Hamstringing is a method of crippling a person or animal so that they cannot walk properly by severing tendons in the thigh of the individual. It is used as a method of torture, or to incapacitate the victim.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hamstringing in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hamstringing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of hamstringing in a Sentence

  1. Steve Milloy:

    Biden’s slam of Chinese President Xi and Russian President Putin for not showing up at COP26 is a sad indication of Biden’s failure to grasp or accept real-world realities, china wants to be the lone global superpower by 2049. Russia wants to get Europe hooked on its natural gas. So neither country has any interest in hamstringing its own economy with destructive climate regulations.


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