disadvantage
/ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To place at a disadvantage. · They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.
He/she/it disadvantages · Past disadvantaged · Past participle disadvantaged · -ing form disadvantaging
Verb forms
- Base form
- disadvantage
- He/she/it
- disadvantages
- Past
- disadvantaged
- Past participle
- disadvantaged
- -ing form
- disadvantaging
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These are daring men, and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us some harm unless we are careful.
I suppose there is some good reason for it, but you have me at a disadvantage."
“It may, perhaps, be pleasant,” replied Charlotte, “to be able to impose on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded.
“If you were aware,” said Elizabeth, “of the very great disadvantage to us all, which must arise from the public notice of Lydia’s unguarded and imprudent manner, nay, which has already arisen from it, I am sure you would judge differently in the affair.”
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