Definition of detriment

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Detriment (n.) 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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Wound :: Wound (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc..
Nocument :: Nocument (n.) Harm; injury; detriment.
Afford :: Afford (v. t.) To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough..
Detriment :: Detriment (v. t.) To do injury to; to hurt.
Cost :: Cost (v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
Detriment :: Detriment (n.) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
Detrimental :: Detrimental (a.) Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful.
Lossful :: Lossful (a.) Detrimental.
Detriment :: Detriment (n.) That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc..
Injurious :: Injurious (a.) Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit, reputation, property, etc..
Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat..
Hurter :: Hurter (n.) Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief.
Exposure :: Exposure (n.) The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience..
Prejudice :: Prejudice (n.) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
Injury :: Injury (a.) Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character..
Harm :: Harm (n.) Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
Damage :: Damage (n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief..
Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance..
Damnum :: damnum (n.) Harm; detriment, either to character or property..
Detrimentalness :: Detrimentalness (n.) The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness.
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