handicapping

The word “handicapping” has 4 syllables: hand-i-cap-ping

It's pronounced as /ˈhæn.dɪˌkæp.ɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for handicapping?

In the thesaurus, “handicapping” has 64 synonyms and 20 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for handicapping along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for handicapping

  • arresting
  • baffling
  • balking
  • barricading
  • binding
  • blockading
  • blocking
  • braking
  • chaining
  • checking
  • choking
  • clogging
  • confining
  • constraining
  • cramping
  • curbing
  • delaying
  • derailing
  • disrupting
  • embarrassing
  • encumbering
  • fettering
  • foiling
  • frustrating
  • giving a hard time
  • haltering
  • hampering
  • handcuffing
  • hindering
  • hobbling
  • hog-tying
  • holding back
  • holding up
  • impeding
  • inhibiting
  • leashing
  • manacling
  • miring
  • muzzling
  • obstructing
  • reining
  • repressing
  • restraining
  • retaining
  • retarding
  • roadblocking
  • sabotaging
  • shackling
  • short-circuiting
  • smothering
  • stifling
  • strangling
  • stumping
  • stymieing
  • suffocating
  • suppressing
  • tethering
  • thwarting
  • tieing
  • tieing up
  • trammeling
  • trammelling
  • tying
  • tying up

Antonyms for handicapping

  • aiding
  • assisting
  • clearing
  • encouraging
  • facilitating
  • freeing
  • furthering
  • helping
  • liberating
  • loosening
  • making way
  • opening
  • promoting
  • releasing
  • smoothing
  • unclogging
  • unplugging
  • unstopping
  • untieing
  • untying

Meanings of handicapping

  • verb
    1. To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
    2. (by extension) To place at disadvantage.
    3. To estimate betting odds.
  • noun
    1. The imposition of a handicap.

Example Sentences

  • The sports analyst is skilled at handicapping football games, often predicting the winners accurately.
  • Handicapping horse races requires a deep understanding of the horses' past performances and conditions.
  • The company was accused of handicapping smaller competitors by using unfair business practices.
  • He spent hours handicapping the tournament, trying to determine the most likely champion.
  • Handicapping a golf course involves adjusting scores based on the difficulty level of the course.

On this page you'll find 84 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to handicapping, such as: aiding, arresting, assisting, baffling, balking, barricading, binding.

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Related Words

handcuffing

  • arresting
  • attaching
  • baffling
  • balking
  • barricading
  • binding
  • bitting
  • blockading
  • blocking
  • braking
  • chaining
  • checking
  • choking
  • clogging
  • confining
  • constraining
  • cramping
  • curbing
  • delaying
  • derailing
  • disrupting
  • embarrassing
  • enchaining
  • encumbering
  • enfettering
  • entangling
  • fastening
  • fettering
  • foiling
  • frustrating
  • giving a hard time
  • gyving
  • haltering
  • hampering
  • handicapping
  • hindering
  • hobbling
  • hog-tying
  • holding back
  • holding up
  • impeding
  • inhibiting
  • ironing
  • joining
  • lashing
  • leashing
  • limiting
  • linking
  • manacling
  • miring
  • muzzling
  • obstructing
  • pinioning
  • reining
  • repressing
  • restraining
  • restricting
  • retaining
  • retarding
  • roadblocking
  • sabotaging
  • securing
  • shackling
  • short-circuiting
  • smothering
  • stifling
  • strangling
  • stumping
  • stymieing
  • suffocating
  • suppressing
  • tangling
  • tethering
  • thwarting
  • tieing
  • tieing up
  • trammeling
  • trammelling
  • trussing
  • tying
  • tying up

balking

  • afraid
  • antipathetic
  • arresting
  • averse
  • averting
  • avoidance
  • backward
  • baffling
  • barring
  • beating
  • blocking
  • checking
  • checkmate
  • checkmating
  • circumvention
  • clogging
  • conquering
  • conservative
  • coping with
  • counteracting
  • crossing
  • debarment
  • defeating
  • defending
  • determent
  • deterrence
  • deterrent
  • deterring
  • discomfiting
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • encumbering
  • enjoining
  • fettering
  • foiling
  • forbidding
  • forestalling
  • forestallment
  • frustrating
  • frustration
  • guarding
  • halting
  • hampering
  • handicapping
  • hesitating
  • hindering
  • hobbling
  • holding back
  • impeding
  • in opposition
  • indisposed
  • inhibiting
  • interdicting
  • interdiction
  • interrupting
  • loath
  • manacling
  • negating
  • negation
  • neutralization
  • neutralizing
  • not in the mood
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • objecting
  • obstructing
  • obviating
  • offsetting
  • opposed
  • opposing
  • outlawing
  • overcoming
  • precautionary
  • precluding
  • preservative
  • preventative
  • preventing
  • prevention
  • preventive
  • prohibiting
  • prohibition
  • prophylactic
  • proscribing
  • proscription
  • protecting
  • protesting
  • reluctant
  • resistant
  • resistive
  • retardant
  • safeguarding
  • setting back
  • shackling
  • short-circuiting
  • shy
  • shying
  • slow
  • stalling
  • sticking
  • stopping
  • thwarting
  • tieing up
  • trammeling
  • trammelling
  • tying up
  • uneager
  • unsympathetic
  • uptight
  • warding off
  • withstanding

ladening

  • afflicting
  • burdening
  • clogging
  • cluttering
  • encumbering
  • filling
  • freighting
  • hampering
  • handicapping
  • heaping
  • lading
  • loading
  • lumbering
  • mounding
  • oppressing
  • overburdening
  • overloading
  • overtaxing
  • packing
  • piling
  • pressing
  • saddling
  • stacking
  • straining
  • surcharging
  • taxing
  • weighing
  • weighting

lading

sabotaging

  • alienated
  • anarchistic
  • annihilating
  • arresting
  • attacking
  • baffling
  • banging up
  • bellicose
  • bottlenecking
  • braking
  • breaking
  • checking
  • constraining
  • contumacious
  • curbing
  • damaging
  • decelerating
  • defacing
  • defiant
  • demolishing
  • depredating
  • desecrating
  • despoiling
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • difficult
  • disaffected
  • disloyal
  • disobedient
  • disorderly
  • dissident
  • encumbering
  • factious
  • foiling
  • fractious
  • frustrating
  • graffitiing
  • graffiting
  • halting
  • hampering
  • handicapping
  • harming
  • hindering
  • hobbling
  • holding back
  • holding up
  • hurting
  • iconoclastic
  • impairing
  • impeding
  • incorrigible
  • individualistic
  • inhibiting
  • insurgent
  • insurrectionary
  • intractable
  • looting
  • marauding
  • marring
  • mutinous
  • obstinate
  • obstructing
  • pillaging
  • plundering
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • radical
  • ransacking
  • ravaging
  • ravening
  • razing
  • rebel
  • recalcitrant
  • refractory
  • reining
  • resistant
  • restless
  • restraining
  • retarding
  • revolutionary
  • rioting
  • riotous
  • ruining
  • sacking
  • scourging
  • seditious
  • setting back
  • shattering
  • slackening
  • slowing
  • smashing
  • spoiling
  • spoliating
  • stopping
  • tagging
  • tearing down
  • threatening
  • thwarting
  • tieing up
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • trashing
  • treasonable
  • turbulent
  • tying up
  • ungovernable
  • unruly
  • vandalizing
  • violating
  • warring
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • wracking
  • wrecking

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