pain vs sting

pain and sting both are nouns.

pain and sting both are verbs.

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

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

pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
sting: a mental pain or distress

Other hyponyms of pain 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, photalgia, photophobia, costalgia, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, referred pain, renal colic, smart, smarting, smartness, stinging, stitch, rawness, soreness, tenderness, thermalgesia, throb, torment, torture, ulalgia, urodynia.

pain (noun)	sting (noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort	a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness	operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid	a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder	a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
	a mental pain or distress

pain (verb)	sting (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed	saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
cause emotional anguish or make miserable	deliver a sting to
	cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
	cause a stinging pain
	cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

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