harm vs sting

harm and sting both are nouns.

harm and sting both are verbs.

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

As nouns, sting is a hyponym of harm; that is, sting 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
sting: a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

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

harm (noun)	sting (noun)
the act of damaging something or someone	a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
the occurrence of a change for the worse	operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury	a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
	a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
	a mental pain or distress

harm (verb)	sting (verb)
cause or do harm to	saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
	deliver a sting to
	cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
	cause a stinging pain
	cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

Difference between harm and sting

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