Crossword-Solution: HANDICAP
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Handicap | n. | An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like. |
| Handicap | n. | A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors. |
| Handicap | n. | An old game at cards. |
| Handicap | v. t. | To encumber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily handicapped. |
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Sentences with HANDICAP (5)
The Handicap Digest is an electronic mail only digest of articles relating to all types of issues affecting the handicapped.
Quickly she loosened her riding skirt and tossed it aside—it was a heavy handicap to successful travel in the trees.
Next week, under 'Seller and Buyer', Appeared in the _DAILY GAZETTE_: 'A racehorse for sale, and a flyer; Has never been started as yet; A trial will show what his pace is; The buyer can get him in light, And win all the handicap races.
Why, she had actually made a mock of even that handicap, for ordinarily it is as disastrous to feminine appearance as writing books.
The Wargeilah Handicap Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just one unpretentious pub; And there, from all the stations round, The local sportsmen can be found.
Quotes with HANDICAP (3)
The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false beliefs, and faulty judgments, which are the causes of so much hardship and handicap. To heal the body one turns to the practitioner of the art of healing the body, but to heal the soul there is no doctor to turn to, and each of us is left t…
But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.
Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction
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Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1952–2021).