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Causing harm or putting something at a disadvantage.

adjective

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detrimental

Repeated interruptions were detrimental to the team's concentration.

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While testing a new reader poll, an editor accidentally allowed practice responses to contaminate the final results by mixing them with actual submissions. A separate problem caused an impairment of the editing system: a failed search function reduced the team's ability to find older files. Both difficulties were detrimental to the publication's work, but they required different responses.

From Maintaining a Shared System.

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