fracture vs injury

injury vs fracture

fracture and injury both are nouns.

fracture is a verb but injury is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fracture	Yes	No	Yes	No
injury	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, injury is a hypernym of fracture; that is, injury is a word with a broader meaning than fracture:

fracture: breaking of hard tissue such as bone
injury: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

Other hypernyms of fracture include harm, hurt, trauma.

fracture (noun)	injury (noun)
the act of cracking something	wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other	an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage
breaking of hard tissue such as bone	an accident that results in physical damage or hurt
	a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
	any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

fracture (verb)	injury (verb)
fracture a bone of
become fractured
violate or abuse
break into pieces
interrupt, break, or destroy

$Difference between fracture and injury$

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