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for Detriment
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Detriment \Det"ri*ment\ (d[e^]t"r[i^]*ment), n. [L. detrimentum,
fr. deterere, detritum, to rub or wear away; de + terere to
rub: cf. F. d['e]triment. See Trite.]
1. That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm;
diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as,
detriments to property, religion, morals, etc.
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I can repair
That detriment, if such it be. --Milton.
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2. A charge made to students and barristers for incidental
repairs of the rooms they occupy. [Eng.]
Syn: Injury; loss; damage; disadvantage; prejudice; hurt;
mischief; harm.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Detriment \Det"ri*ment\, v. t.
To do injury to; to hurt. [Archaic]
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Other might be determined thereby. --Fuller.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
detriment
n 1: a damage or loss [syn: detriment, hurt]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "detriment":
abomination, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, befoulment,
bereavement, blight, breakage, breakdown, collapse, corruption,
cost, crack-up, crippling, crying evil, damage, dead loss, debit,
defilement, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment,
despoliation, destruction, dilapidation, disability, disablement,
disadvantage, dispossession, disrepair, divestment, drawback,
encroachment, evil, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, grievance,
handicap, harm, havoc, hobbling, hurt, hurting, ill, impairment,
incapacitation, infection, infringement, injury, inroad, liability,
loser, losing, losing streak, loss, loss of ground, maiming,
mayhem, mischief, mutilation, outrage, perdition, poison,
pollution, prejudice, privation, robbery, ruin, ruination,
ruinousness, sabotage, sacrifice, scathe, sickening, spoiling,
spoliation, step backward, stripping, taking away, the worst,
total loss, toxin, venom, vexation, weakening, woe, wrong
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