handicap

[ˈhændikæp]

Definition:
1. A permanent physical or mental condition that makes it difficult or impossible to use a particular part of your body or mind.
2. Something that makes it difficult for sb to do something.

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Use 'handicap' in a sentence:

1. A Research on Visual Cognition Development Followed by Early Hearing Handicap.
2. Ukraine is handicapped by its near-total dependency on Russian oil.
3. He did not read up on his handicap.
4. Lack of education is a real handicap.
5. So Australia's position on the world map is no longer a handicap.
6. Age can be a handicap on both sides.
7. Don't make fun of someone's physical handicap.
8. He lost his leg when he was ten, but learnt to overcome his handicap.
9. Consumers could overcome even that handicap if they were able to keep borrowing.
10. The second handicap is more serious.
11. He surmounted his handicap and achieved great success.
12. He certainly does not dwell on his handicap.
13. Another sister struggled with a severe mental handicap.
14. It's going to be a home for handicapped children.
15. There are places you can take physically handicapped children where staff don't blanch at the sight of a wheelchair.
16. You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
17. His vacuity was a handicap in these debates.
18. Needy and handicapped people depend on government relief for their support.
19. Alex was mentally handicapped.
20. Only in America.are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
21. She was away from school for 15 weeks, a handicap she could have done without.
22. I'm going to work two days a week teaching handicapped kids to fish.
23. There is considerable room for improvement in state facilities for treating the mentally handicapped.
24. Now I play to a 9 or 10 handicap on a shorter, less difficult course.
25. I see your handicap is down from 16 to 12.
26. But the greatest handicap of the Japanese is their lack of imagination.
27. So Australia’s position on the world map is no longer a handicap.
28. He is the first handicapped man to swim across the English channel.
29. Such people are so afraid of being labeled a failure at anything that they constantly develop one handicap or another in order to explain away failure.
30. Poor eyesight can be a serious handicap if he wants to join the army.
31. Rather than putting their reputation on the line again, many successful people develop a handicap—drinking, fatigue, depression—that allows them to keep their status no matter what the future brings.
32. That is a handicap when it peddles itself to donors.
33. The accident left him physically handicapped.
34. His golf handicap hovered between 10 and 12.
35. Greater levels of stress may seriously handicap some students.
36. Only in America are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
37. A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force.
38. Some hearing-impaired children may work harder to overcome their handicap.
39. He lost his leg when he was ten, but learned to overcome his handicap.
40. He'd been working at the local hostel for the handicapped on a voluntary basis.
41. The committee will work toward the establishment of a school for the handicapped.
42. It is arguable that this was not as grave a handicap as it might appear.
43. With a limited budget the society is handicapped in its operation.
44. British exports have been handicapped by the strong pound.
45. Being a foreigner was not a handicap.
46. Despite her handicap, Jane is able to hold down a full-time job.
47. The industrial injuries scheme takes into account the actual disability and whether it handicaps a person in working.
48. Not speaking the language proved to be a bigger handicap than I'd imagined.