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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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

2. 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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3. 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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Thesaurus Results for Detriment:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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