hurting vs throb

throb vs hurting

hurting and throb both are nouns.

hurting is not a verb while throb is a verb.

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

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

hurting: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
throb: a deep pulsating type of pain

Other hyponyms of hurting include ache, aching, agony, excruciation, suffering, arthralgia, burn, burning, 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, torment, torture, ulalgia, urodynia.

hurting (noun)	throb (noun)
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder	an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart)
	a deep pulsating type of pain

hurting (verb)	throb (verb)
	tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
	expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
	pulsate or pound with abnormal force

Difference between hurting and throb

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