harm vs penetrating injury

penetrating injury vs harm

harm and penetrating injury both are nouns.

harm is a verb but penetrating injury is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
harm	Yes	No	Yes	No
penetrating injury	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, penetrating injury is a hyponym of harm; that is, penetrating injury 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
penetrating injury: injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body

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, frostbite, intravasation, penetrating trauma, pinch, rupture, bite, insect bite, sting, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

harm (noun)	penetrating injury (noun)
the act of damaging something or someone	injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body
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)	penetrating injury (verb)
cause or do harm to

Difference between harm and penetrating injury

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