trauma vs sting

sting vs trauma

trauma and sting both are nouns.

trauma is not a verb while sting is a verb.

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

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

trauma: 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 trauma 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.

trauma (noun)	sting (noun)
an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects	a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury	operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
	a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
	a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
	a mental pain or distress

trauma (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 trauma and sting

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