Definitions for handicapped

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handicapped hand·i·capped

Spelling: [han-dee-kapt]

IPA: /ˈhæn diˌkæpt/

Handicapped is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 430 anagrams from letters in handicapped (aacddehinpp).

Definitions for handicapped

noun

1. (used with a plural verb) Sometimes Offensive. handicapped persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
2. a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
3. the disadvantage or advantage itself.
4. any disadvantage that makes success more difficult:
5. Sometimes Offensive. a physical or mental disability making participation in certain of the usual activities of daily living more difficult.

adjective

1. Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
2. of or designed for handicapped people:
3. Sports. (of a competitor) marked by, being under, or having a handicap:

verb (used with object)

1. to place at a disadvantage; disable or burden:
2. to subject to a disadvantageous handicap, as a competitor of recognized superiority.
3. to assign handicaps to (competitors).
4. Sports. to attempt to predict the winner of (a contest, especially a horse race), as by comparing past performances of the contestants. to assign odds for or against (any particular contestant) to win a contest or series of contests:

Origin of handicapped

First recorded in 1910-15; handicap + -ed³

Examples for handicapped

Abolish copayment for the unemployed, students, the handicapped, and poor pensioners.

They were handicapped by the burros, though, which helped us.

He is not lingering in illness, or crippled, or handicapped.

He was handicapped as he had been all along by the absence of the vines one could use for lashings.

Saenz set an orange plastic sled at the top of a handicapped access ramp.

The former pediatrician was also instrumental in protecting the rights of children born with birth defects and the handicapped.

We lost a million individuals in that war…and another million were handicapped.

I will plod for hours and hours at a time, and at every turn I am handicapped.

You overweight your boy going off and he will be handicapped out of the race, too.

You will not want the care of her––young people should not be handicapped in that way.