injury vs wale

injury and wale both are nouns.

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

As nouns, wale is a hyponym of injury; that is, wale 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
wale: a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions

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, sting, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

injury (noun)	wale (noun)
wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted	thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage	a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
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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