(a.) Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind.
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Hamstrung
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Hamstring
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(1) Negredo missed a great chance to make it six and impress in the absence of the hamstrung Sergio Agüero and under-the-weather Edin Dzeko, but played a pivotal part in turning the game by winning a soft penalty following a slight touch from Amorebieta.
(2) He has plans to change the way social workers are trained (they are too hamstrung by "dogma", too reluctant to take at-risk kids into care).
(3) "During one of the worst housing crises this country has faced, with demand at sky-high levels, councils are being hamstrung," said Mike Jones, chairman of the Local Government Association's (LGA) environment and housing board.
(4) The Brazilian did not appear hamstrung as he samba-ed his way through the post‑match celebrations, the players only returning to the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the city centre just before 3am with the raucous party prolonged thereafter.
(5) As a film-maker, of course, Cox is rather hamstrung by the fact that his first two films - Repo Man and Sid & Nancy - remain his most successful and most enduring.
(6) The EU, hamstrung by its own existential woes, has cooled on expansion into the western Balkans.
(7) In February, hamstrung by protests, congress abandoned the so-called Road Map, a constitutional declaration devised two years ago that gave it the job of supervising Libya's constitution.
(8) Meanwhile, lawyers say the prosecution has partly been hamstrung by an obstreperous police force that would prefer to drag its feet than help incriminate its own leaders.
(9) "And I think he needs to have a little think about things… He's a BBC employee as well, so I'm a bit hamstrung on anything I can say.
(10) King's version of events – that the Bank was hamstrung by inadequate powers – has prevailed but some decisions could surely have been made differently.
(11) Andrew Carmichael Preston, Lancashire • Your report about the ongoing problems with levels of care at Tameside Hospital, Manchester ( Report , 3 July), describes it as being hamstrung by a shortage of both doctors, especially consultants, and nurses in key departments.
(12) On the international negotiating front, however, the Obama administration may be hamstrung by sluggish Senate progress on passing climate legislation.
(13) The question is whether the Bank of England will respond by pumping more money into the economy under its quantitative easing (QE) programme, but it is hamstrung by high inflation.
(14) An employer of 140,000 people, it is one of the mainstays of the Brazilian economy, but its ability to do business has been hamstrung by allegations of corruption, the jailing of its chief executive, Marcelo Odebrecht , and a freeze on new contracts from Petrobras and the government.
(15) He blasts 156 dingers in three seasons in Dallas, although the Rangers suck and are financially hamstrung because of the deal.
(16) Parallel negotiations between the US and Europe, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), are suddenly even more behind: hamstrung by similar opposition as well as complications created by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.
(17) In such talks, the White House would be hamstrung by the fact that most US sanctions are in the gift of Congress over which President Obama has limited sway.
(18) He is currently out injured, along with the hamstrung Dwight Gayle, while Marouane Chamakh lasted only 45 minutes against Swansea.
(19) He said that the BBC Trust, the corporation's governance and regulatory body, is an expensive, lumbering entity that has found itself hamstrung by the impossible dual role of attempting to regulate and champion the corporation.
(20) The problem right now is they’re hamstrung.” Thompson also released a letter in which the original sponsor of the amendment – Republican Jay Dickey, a former House member – said it was time to reinstate funding for gun violence research.