He is not lingering in illness, or crippled, or handicapped.
We lost a million individuals in that war…and another million were handicapped.
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.
Abolish copayment for the unemployed, students, the handicapped, and poor pensioners.
You will not want the care of her––young people should not be handicapped in that way.
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.
They were handicapped by the burros, though, which helped us.
He was handicapped as he had been all along by the absence of the vines one could use for lashings.
"disabled," 1915, past participle adjective from handicap (v.). Originally especially of children. Meaning "handicapped persons generally" is attested by 1958.
1650s, from hand in cap, a game whereby two bettors would engage a neutral umpire to determine the odds in an unequal contest. The bettors would put their hands holding forfeit money into a hat or cap. The umpire would announce the odds and the bettors would withdraw their hands -- hands full meaning that they accepted the odds and the bet was on, hands empty meaning they did not accept the bet and were willing to forfeit the money. If one forfeited, then the money went to the other. If both agreed either on forfeiting or going ahead with the wager, then the umpire kept the money as payment. The custom, though not the name, is attested from 14c. ("Piers Plowman").
Reference to horse racing is 1754 (Handy-Cap Match), where the umpire decrees the superior horse should carry extra weight as a "handicap;" this led to sense of "encumbrance, disability" first recorded 1890. The main modern sense, "disability," is the last to develop, early 20c.
"equalize chances of competitors," 1852, but implied in the horse-race sense from mid-18c., from handicap (n.). Meaning "put at a disadvantage" is from 1864. Earliest verbal sense, now obsolete, was "to gain as in a wagering game" (1640s). Related: Handicapped; handicapping.
handicap hand·i·cap (hān'dē-kāp')
n.
A physical, mental, or emotional condition that interferes with one's normal functioning.
