harm vs frostbite

frostbite vs harm

harm and frostbite both are nouns.

harm is a verb but frostbite is not a verb.

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

As nouns, frostbite is a hyponym of harm; that is, frostbite 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
frostbite: destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene

Other hyponyms of harm include brain damage, birth trauma, blast trauma, bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, blunt trauma, bruise, contusion, bump, burn, dislocation, electric shock, break, fracture, cryopathy, 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)	frostbite (noun)
the act of damaging something or someone	destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene
the occurrence of a change for the worse
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

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

Difference between harm and frostbite

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