handicapped

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped
verb injure permanently
verb attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant

Handicapped as he was by lack of poundage, Dublin’s pet lamb made up for it by superlative skill in ringcraft. — Ulysses, James Joyce
She started handicapped in the struggle, for she had ordered Bremmil about just the least little bit in the world too much; and he was beginning to resent it. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
His china-blue eyes under white eyebrows that jutted out in little horns, never stirred; the long upper lip of his wide mouth, between the fine white whiskers, twitched once or twice; it was easy to see from that anxious rapt expression, whence Soames derived the handicapped look which sometimes came upon his face. — The Forsyte Saga - Complete, John Galsworthy

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