Detriment: alternatives and connections

To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, whi…

The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril ins…

A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be l…

A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or d…

Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impra…

That which causes damage or loss.

A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinc…

To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in moral…

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically…

To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.

To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure.

Damage; injury; harm.

Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.

Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentie…

To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.

With regard to a genus, or an extensive class; as, an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals or plants generically a…

The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, an English materialist (1588-1679); esp., his political theory that the most perfect form o…

Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief.