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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Detriment \Det"ri*ment\, verb (used with an object) To do injury to; to hurt. [Archaic]
Other might be determined thereby. --Fuller.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Detriment \Det"ri*ment\ (d[e^]t"r[i^]*ment), noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
detriment
noun: a damage or loss [syn: {hurt}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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