handicap
noun
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.
will handicap
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future tenseof handicap.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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That ban will handicap his attempt to appeal.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2024
“Anything short of full political and financial support for the program will handicap the WHO response, right now and into the future,” she said.
From MSNBC ● May 23, 2016
The reform has been hotly contested by Internet companies, on-line advertisers and start-ups, who say it will handicap a tool that is central to how the Web operates.
From Reuters ● May 31, 2011
Many who have seen service will return with slight nervous difficulties that will handicap them in certain forms of urban industry.
From Rural Problems of Today by Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) Groves
My help will handicap you at first,"—his voice grew dry and hard here,-"but once you have got a start you can shake me off as quick as you like.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
