harm vs whiplash

whiplash vs harm

harm and whiplash both are nouns.

harm is a verb but whiplash is not a verb.

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

As nouns, whiplash is a hyponym of harm; that is, whiplash 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
whiplash: an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)

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, sting, strain, whiplash injury, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

harm (noun)	whiplash (noun)
the act of damaging something or someone	a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
the occurrence of a change for the worse	an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

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

Difference between harm and whiplash

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