Impediment, hindrance

Usage examples of handicap.

An undistinguished, rural family, bad schooling, the Afrikaans language: from each of these component handicaps he has, more or less, escaped.

Instead, as soon as he had the wounded man in the wheelchair, he rolled him out of the drive, through the areaway, and around the house to the handicapped entrance at the far side.

She realized, though, that Rossmere had started from a great disadvantage and it seemed next to impossible that Ascot would be so much faster than the others that he could overcome this handicap.

Willy, for she could imagine how the bitter, frustrated Simon Bentwood would look upon his daughter favouring her son, and he with his handicap.

Lal Bihari overcame the handicap of being dead, and managed to obtain a passport from the Indian government so that he could travel to Harvard to accept his Prize.

Had it not been for the canes held so tightly in his hand, Sam might have been able to believe he was not handicapped.

Certainly people wore out early from hard work, and there were always those handicapped older ones who had come out of cryonic suspension with a kind of freezer-burn that slowed them down, or limited their abilities, but otherwise people were pretty healthy.

Fisher was actually a very powerful personnot a drooly, not handicapped, not a cripple, but the captain and commander of a delicate mission to O-Zone.

Although our Ostrogoths were handicapped by waterlogged armor and numbed limbs, they so heavily outnumbered the Gepids that they likewise fought off their assailants, then threw them backward.

My attorney understood this concept, despite his racial handicap, but our hitchhiker was not an easy person to reach.

In the dorm to which I had been assigned housemother, five of the young boys were not only legally blind but were handicapped in other ways, too.

The overwhelming silence, the moonshot darkness, the stark landscape that afforded little cover, all were serious handicaps.

Why should these handicapped immortals not compensate by discovering nonferrous metals and the properties of their alloys?

And we can make sure that nonperforming teachers no longer handicap children who want to learn.

Martha, the maid, almost filled the kitchen, but did not seem discomfited, nor, the Norths noted thankfully, handicapped.