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handicap
Found in thesaurus: poor shape, unfitness, bad condition, softness, vantage, advantage, difficulty, injure, wound, bias, disfavor, disfavour, disadvantage
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handicap
n.
disadvantage, hindrance; physical disability
v.
disable, restrict, hinder, impede
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Handicap
Handicapped or handicap may refer to:
- Handicapping, various methods of leveling a sport or game
- Handicap race, in horse racing
- Chess handicap
- Handicap (golf)
- Handicap (tennis)
- Go handicaps
- Handicaps in shogi
- Asian handicap, bookmakers' technique to level odds
- Hand-in-cap, an old English trading game that inspired the word handicap
- Disability, a usually congenital physical or mental impairment
- Handicap principle, an evolutionary theory
- Self-handicapping, a psychological method for preserving self-esteem
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handicap
Noun
1. the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; "reading disability"; "hearing impairment"
(synonym) disability, disablement, impairment
(hypernym) unfitness, poor shape, bad condition
(hyponym) bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara
(derivation) disable, invalid, incapacitate
2. advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning
(hypernym) advantage, vantage
(hyponym) penalty
3. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
(synonym) hindrance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, check
(hypernym) difficulty
(hyponym) albatross, millstone
(derivation) hinder, hamper
Verb
1. injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident"
(synonym) disable, invalid, incapacitate
(hypernym) injure, wound
(hyponym) hock
(derivation) disability, disablement, impairment
2. attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant
(hypernym) bias
3. put at a disadvantage; "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements"
(synonym) hinder, hamper
(hypernym) disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour
(derivation) hindrance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, check
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Handicap (das)
n.
(also: Handikap) handicap, disadvantage, hindrance
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handicap
nm.
handicap, encumbrance; crippling, liability
