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  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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  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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  detriment
      n 1: a damage or loss [syn: detriment, hurt]

  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