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Exact Match:

handicap

advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning

put at a disadvantage; "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements"

attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant

Synonyms:

• Derby,
• Kentucky Derby,
• Preakness Stakes,
• abnormality,
• acute disease,
• affection,
• affliction,
• ailment,
• allergic disease,
• allergy,
• allowance,
• atrophy,
• bacterial disease,
• bale,
• bar,
• barrier,
• bear hard upon,
• birth defect,
• blight,
• block,
• bulge,
• burden,
• burdening,
• burthen,
• cardiovascular disease,
• cargo,
• charge,
• charging,
• chase,
• check,
• chronic disease,
• circulatory disease,
• complaint,
• complication,
• condition,
• congenital defect,
• constraint,
• cramp,
• cripple,
• cross,
• cumber,
• cumbrance,
• curb,
• damage,
• deadweight,
• deadwood,
• defect,
• deficiency disease,
• deformity,
• degenerative disease,
• detriment,
• difficulty,
• disability,
• disable,
• disadvantage,
• disease,
• disorder,
• distemper,
• drag,
• drawback,
• edge,
• embarrass,
• embarrassment,
• encumber,
• encumbrance,
• endemic,
• endemic disease,
• endocrine disease,
• enmesh,
• ensnarl,
• entangle,
• entoil,
• entrammel,
• entrap,
• entwine,
• epidemic disease,
• fetter,
• flat race,
• freight,
• functional disease,
• fungus disease,
• gastrointestinal disease,
• genetic disease,
• hamper,
• hamstring,
• handicap race,
• harm,
• harness race,
• head start,
• hereditary disease,
• hinder,
• hindrance,
• hobble,
• horse race,
• hurdle race,
• hurt,
• iatrogenic disease,
• illness,
• impairment,
• impede,
• impediment,
• impedimenta,
• imposition,
• inconvenience,
• incubus,
• incumbency,
• indisposition,
• infectious disease,
• infirmity,
• injury,
• involve,
• lade,
• lading,
• lame,
• liability,
• lime,
• limit,
• limitation,
• load,
• loading,
• loss,
• loss of ground,
• lumber,
• malady,
• malaise,
• millstone,
• mischief,
• morbidity,
• morbus,
• muscular disease,
• net,
• neurological disease,
• nutritional disease,
• obstacle,
• occupational disease,
• odds,
• onus,
• oppress,
• oppression,
• organic disease,
• overburden,
• overhand,
• overload,
• overtax,
• overtaxing,
• overweight,
• overweighting,
• pack,
• pandemic disease,
• pathological condition,
• pathology,
• penalize,
• penalty,
• plant disease,
• plate race,
• prejudice,
• press down,
• press hard upon,
• pressure,
• protozoan disease,
• psychosomatic disease,
• punish,
• purse race,
• quarter-horse race,
• respiratory disease,
• rest hard upon,
• restrain,
• restraint,
• restrict,
• restriction,
• rockiness,
• saddle,
• saddle with,
• saddling,
• secondary disease,
• seediness,
• shackle,
• sickishness,
• sickness,
• signs,
• snarl,
• stake,
• stake race,
• start,
• steeplechase,
• step backward,
• stumbling block,
• superincumbency,
• surcharge,
• sweep,
• sweepstake,
• sweepstakes,
• symptomatology,
• symptomology,
• symptoms,
• syndrome,
• tangle,
• tax,
• taxing,
• the pip,
• toil,
• trammel,
• trotting race,
• trouble,
• urogenital disease,
• vantage,
• virus disease,
• wasting disease,
• weigh down,
• weigh heavy on,
• weigh on,
• weigh upon,
• weight,
• white elephant,
• worm disease