Synonyms:
disabled, handicapped
Meaning: incapable of functioning as a consequence of injury or illness
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
disabled, handicapped
Meaning: people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped; "technology to help the elderly and the disabled"
Usage examples
The goal erected for the human race, which few reach, being too heavily handicapped.
He got mixed up in his arguments, as people do when handicapped by fear; and before long it became clear that chance had given me for adversary one who was the less fitted for the contest because he was conscious of what you magniloquently call my "greatness of soul." Broken by sufferings and misfortune, he looked on himself as a sort of wreck, and three fears in especial haunted him.