detriment

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

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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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