Synonym: burden, disadvantage, hindrance, load. Similar words: indicate, indicator, vindicate, indicating, indication, indicative, vindication, hand in hand. Meaning: ['hændɪkæp] 
n. 1. the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness 2. advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning 3. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress. v. 1. injure permanently 2. attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant 3. put at a disadvantage.
n. 1. the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness 2. advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning 3. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress. v. 1. injure permanently 2. attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant 3. put at a disadvantage. 
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61. We suffer a great handicap in dealing with a Government who are obsessed with secrecy.
62. Mr Chance, of Nunthorpe, Cleveland, is a charity worker extraordinaire whose good deeds are mostly connected with mental handicap.
63. Not being able to drive is a real handicap if you live in the country.
64. He did not, however, consider this to be a handicap.
65. Money has been the most serious handicap that we have ever met. There are times when poverty is fortunate. Clarence Darrow 
66. The most basic of these relates to personal physical mobility, which can be impaired by physical handicap or old age.
67. Petite Rosanna lost a shoe when fancied for a big handicap at Newbury last time.
68. Babies of alcoholic mothers can be born with a severe degree of handicap.
69. With Janzen shooting a 70, that means Costner and his 16 handicap helped the team a tidy five shots.
70. Thus, many community mental handicap teams have devised absurdly ambitious operational policies which attempt to do all things for all persons.
71. He was able to play down his Vichy activities, and his questionable wartime record never proved a serious handicap in politics.
72. It is on this basis that efforts to remove people from mental handicap hospitals should and will continue.
73. But his results in the past two years suggest he has at least partly overcome that psychological handicap.
74. He was a scrawny, chicken-necked sack of bones, but in spite of his handicap he moved faster than the others.
75. And I have an uneasy feeling that this stance is becoming a handicap in the modern world, like not being computer-literate.
76. Mrs Harris, who plays off a handicap of 12, joined the club in 1964 and plays for the club team.
77. Like Truman two decades earlier, Humphrey did his best to overcome the severe handicap of a badly split party.
78. Taped sources can be effective, especially for pupils with reading difficulties or visual handicap.
79. This was alleged to be a very serious omission, and a great handicap to the efficacy of the scheme.
80. And since I have that type of handicap, I try to interpret it as best as I can.
81. Perhaps they were lucky enough to have reduced their handicap before the golf explosion took place.
82. Davis found that the greater the probable handicap, the greater the reluctance to break the news.
83. I see no reason why that should be denied to those hospitals serving the mentally ill or people with a mental handicap.
84. He had mastered his handicap, but he could not master the rebuffs he suffered,[http://sentencedict.com/handicap.html] due to his appearance.
85. I do believe it wasn't just inability to cope with a terrible handicap.
86. For example, teachers may pose the following questions: Why don't all children with visual handicap wear glasses?
87. Today he plays off a nine handicap, a great help when he is carrying the bag.
88. But there are still many types of handicap - such as autism - about which little is known.
89. It was there that he rode Evichstar in the Lincoln Handicap in 1990 - and notched his first big race victory.
90. Whether the teams could overcome this handicap while also exerting influence at higher levels seemed highly doubtful.
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