- Drawback - Setback - Stumbling block - Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial
quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders
success, or causes loss or injury. - Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest,
fame, credit, profit, or other good. - To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.
- A disadvantage imposed in a sport - Disability - Disadvantage - Golfing equaliser, in theory - Sporting disadvantage - Stumbling block - An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in
starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior
advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the
one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as
possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or
ten pounds, and the like.
- Barrier - Cables to become a hindrance - hindrance to progress - Refresh, close tab and block - Stumbling block - That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that
hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral.