Damage vs Detraction - What's the difference?
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Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
* Francis Bacon
(slang) Cost or expense.
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
* Clarendon
The act of detracting something, or something detracted.
A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
* (Isaac Barrow)
(Roman Catholic Church ) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.
Damage is a related term of detraction.
As nouns the difference between damage and detraction
is that damage is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact while detraction is the act of detracting something, or something detracted.As a verb damage
is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.damage
English
(wikipedia damage)Noun
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
- "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.
Verb
(damag)- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
detraction
English
Noun
(wikipedia detraction)- If indeed we consider all the frivolous and petulant discourse, the impertinent chattings, the rash censures, the spiteful detractions which are so rife in the world