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handicapped

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handicapped
1. physically disabled
2. Psychol denoting a person whose social behaviour or emotional reactions are in some way impaired
3. Sport (of a competitor) assigned a handicap


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He was so handicapped by illiteracy and by his trusting disposition that he would be an easy prey to sharpers.
Then, too, he was handicapped by the possession of a great fund of experience with girls and women who had been absolutely different from her.
No doubt I am handicapped by a certain respectful homage which I always feel involuntarily to any one in the shape of woman, for anything savouring of respect is the last thing to win the bar-maid heart divine.
 
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