Definition of detriment

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Detriment (v. t.) To do injury to; to hurt.

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Prejudicial :: Prejudicial (a.) Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental.
Hurter :: Hurter (n.) Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief.
Wound :: Wound (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc..
Lossful :: Lossful (a.) Detrimental.
For- :: For- () A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe..
Damage :: Damage (n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief..
Microbicide :: Microbicide (n.) Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms..
Damage :: Damage (n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another..
Cost :: Cost (v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
Detriment :: Detriment (v. t.) To do injury to; to hurt.
Disadvantage :: Disadvantage (v. t.) To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.
Prejudice :: Prejudice (n.) Mischief; hurt; damage; 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..
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..
Harm :: Harm (n.) Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
Nocument :: Nocument (n.) Harm; injury; detriment.
Damnum :: damnum (n.) Harm; detriment, either to character or property..
Detrimental :: Detrimental (a.) Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful.
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..
Injurious :: Injurious (a.) Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit, reputation, property, etc..
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