harm vs dislocation

dislocation vs harm

harm and dislocation both are nouns.

harm is a verb but dislocation is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
harm	Yes	No	Yes	No
dislocation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dislocation is a hyponym of harm; that is, dislocation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than harm:

harm: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
dislocation: a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

Other hyponyms of harm include brain damage, birth trauma, blast trauma, bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, blunt trauma, bruise, contusion, bump, burn, electric shock, break, fracture, cryopathy, frostbite, intravasation, penetrating injury, penetrating trauma, pinch, rupture, bite, insect bite, sting, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

harm (noun)	dislocation (noun)
the act of damaging something or someone	the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
the occurrence of a change for the worse	an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury	a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

harm (verb)	dislocation (verb)
cause or do harm to

Difference between harm and dislocation

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