handicap

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.

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.