injury vs frostbite

frostbite vs injury

injury and frostbite both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
injury	Yes	No	No	No
frostbite	Yes	No	No	No

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

injury: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
frostbite: destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene

Other hyponyms of injury include brain damage, birth trauma, blast trauma, bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, blunt trauma, bruise, contusion, bump, burn, dislocation, electric shock, break, fracture, cryopathy, intravasation, penetrating injury, penetrating trauma, pinch, rupture, bite, insect bite, sting, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

injury (noun)	frostbite (noun)
wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted	destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene
an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage
an accident that results in physical damage or hurt
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

Difference between injury and frostbite

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