physical handicap

British  

noun

1. loss of or failure to develop a specific bodily function or functions, whether of movement, sensation, coordination, or speech, but excluding mental impairments or disabilities

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Other Word Forms

• physically handicapped
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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physical handicap

He had spent years overcoming an enormous physical handicap.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2021

A defence ministry spokesman told AFP that the soldier had been undergoing tests at a military hospital, which classified the loss of male genitals as a mental or physical handicap.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2020

Ms. Netrebko maintains, however, that her character’s blindness is nothing more than a physical handicap and that the only thing represented by roses is — roses.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2015

Flandin had referred directly to his physical handicap, to the secret rage of his opponents, had stung their vanity by insisting that he alone was capable of saving the country.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both kinds of colour-blindness, moral and physical, handicap you for success in life.

From The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

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