injury vs insect bite

insect bite vs injury

injury and insect bite both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
injury	Yes	No	No	No
insect bite	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

injury (noun)	insect bite (noun)
wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted	a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
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

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