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Handicap   /hˈændikˌæp/   Listen
Handicap

noun
1.
The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness.  Synonyms: disability, disablement, impairment.  "Hearing impairment"
2.
Advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning.
3.
Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress.  Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, hinderance, hindrance, impediment.
verb
(past & past part. handicapped; pres. part. handicapping)
1.
Injure permanently.  Synonyms: disable, incapacitate, invalid.
2.
Attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant.
3.
Put at a disadvantage.  Synonyms: hamper, hinder.



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"Handicap" Quotes from Famous Books



... to settle up details—mark-boats, handicap, and the like. . . . It's a wonder to me," said Cai reflectively, "how this regatta has run on, year after year. With Bussa for secretary, if you ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... Greenfield's horse gave out. Frawley uttered a cry of joy, but the handicap of half a day was a serious one; he was exhausted, famished, and in the bag there remained only sufficient water to ...
— Murder in Any Degree • Owen Johnson
... race?" asked the man eagerly, too eagerly, Ned thought. "I'll give you a brush, if you do, and a handicap into ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout - or, The Speediest Car on the Road • Victor Appleton
... Pluffles Cupid's Arrows His Chance in Life Watches of The Night The Other Man Consequences The Conversion of Aurellan McGoggin A Germ-destroyer Kidnapped The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly In The House of Suddhoo His Wedded Wife The Broken-link Handicap Beyond The Pale In Error A Bank Fraud Tods' Amendment In The Pride of His Youth Pig The Rout of The White Hussars The Bronckhorst Divorce-case Venus Annodomini The Bisara of Pooree A Friend's Friend The Gate of ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... quick in observing, just in estimating, prompt and fearless in acting. But in finance there is always the element of luck, which, however one may eliminate it, still remains, like the blank at roulette, a constantly present handicap upon the operator. And so it was that Worlington Dodds had come to grief. On the best advices he had dabbled in the funds of a South American Republic in the days before South American Republics had been found out. The Republic defaulted, ...
— The Green Flag • Arthur Conan Doyle


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