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handicapping

verb , present participle of handicap

Synonyms and Antonyms of handicapping

to create difficulty for the work or activity of

the baseball player's small size did not handicap him in the least

Synonyms of handicapping

clogging, cramping, embarrassing, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handcuffing, hindering, hobbling, hog-tying, holding back, holding up, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, short-circuiting, stymieing, trammeling (or trammelling), tying up (or tieing up)

Words Related to handicapping

balking, checking, constraining, curbing, reining, restraining

binding, chaining, haltering, leashing, tethering, tying (or tieing)

arresting, braking, delaying, retaining, retarding

barricading, blockading, blocking, roadblocking

bogging (down), miring

choking, smothering, stifling, strangling, suffocating

baffling, foiling, frustrating, stumping, thwarting

derailing, disrupting, sabotaging

muzzling, repressing, suppressing

confining, hedging (in), hemming (in)

Phrases Synonymous with handicapping

cramping one's style, giving a hard time

Near Antonyms of handicapping

clearing, making way, opening, unclogging, unplugging, unstopping

freeing, liberating, releasing, untying (or untieing)

loosening, smoothing

encouraging, furthering, promoting

Antonyms of handicapping

aiding, assisting, facilitating, helping

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