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handicap

English

  1. 🔊 advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning
  2. 🔊 the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
    “reading disability”
  3. 🔊 something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
  4. 🔊 put at a disadvantage
    “The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements”
  5. 🔊 attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant
  6. 🔊 injure permanently
    “He was disabled in a car accident”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 hándicap handicap
  2. 🔊 invalidez handicap

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