harm vs electric shock

electric shock vs harm

harm and electric shock both are nouns.

harm is a verb but electric shock is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
harm	Yes	No	Yes	No
electric shock	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, electric shock is a hyponym of harm; that is, electric shock 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
electric shock: trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning); usually involves burns and abnormal heart rhythm and unconsciousness

Other hyponyms of harm include brain damage, birth trauma, blast trauma, bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, blunt trauma, bruise, contusion, bump, burn, dislocation, 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)	electric shock (noun)
the act of damaging something or someone	a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body
the occurrence of a change for the worse	the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury	trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning); usually involves burns and abnormal heart rhythm and unconsciousness

harm (verb)	electric shock (verb)
cause or do harm to

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