injury vs sting

sting vs injury

injury and sting both are nouns.

injury is not a verb while sting is a verb.

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

As nouns, sting is a hyponym of injury; that is, sting 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
sting: 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, insect bite, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

injury (noun)	sting (noun)
wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted	a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage	operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
an accident that results in physical damage or hurt	a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat	a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury	a mental pain or distress

injury (verb)	sting (verb)
	saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
	deliver a sting to
	cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
	cause a stinging pain
	cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

Difference between injury and sting

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