hurting vs burning

burning vs hurting

hurting and burning both are nouns.

hurting is not an adjective while burning is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hurting	Yes	No	No	No
burning	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, burning is a hyponym of hurting; that is, burning is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hurting:

hurting: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
burning: pain that feels hot as if it were on fire

Other hyponyms of hurting include ache, aching, agony, excruciation, suffering, arthralgia, burn, causalgia, colic, gripes, griping, intestinal colic, chest pain, chiralgia, distress, dysmenorrhea, glossalgia, glossodynia, growing pains, keratalgia, labor pain, mastalgia, melagra, meralgia, metralgia, myalgia, myodynia, nephralgia, neuralgia, neuralgy, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pang, pang, sting, photalgia, photophobia, costalgia, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, referred pain, renal colic, smart, smarting, smartness, sting, stinging, stitch, rawness, soreness, tenderness, thermalgesia, throb, torment, torture, ulalgia, urodynia.

hurting (noun)	burning (noun)
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder	the act of burning something
	execution by electricity
	execution by fire
	a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin
	a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
	pain that feels hot as if it were on fire

hurting (adjective)	burning (adjective)
	of immediate import

Difference between hurting and burning

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