About The Word Detriment
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Detriment
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What's The Definition Of Detriment?
[n] a damage or loss
Synonyms | Synonyms for Detriment: hurt Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | damage | expense | harm | impairment Detriment In Webster's Dictionary \Det"ri*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.
I can repair That detriment, if such it be.
--Milton.
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.
\Det"ri*ment\, v. t. To do injury to; to hurt. [Archaic] Other might be determined thereby. --Fuller. |
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