Difference between Burn and Sting

What is the difference between Burn and Sting?

Burn as a noun is a physical injury caused by heat or cold or electricity or radiation or caustic chemicals. while Sting as a noun is a bump left on the skin after having been stung.

Burn

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A physical injury caused by heat or cold or electricity or radiation or caustic chemicals. The act of burning something. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid. An intense non-physical sting, as left by an effective insult. A stream.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be consumed by fire, or at least in flames. To become overheated so as to make unusable. To feel hot, e.g. due to embarrassment. To sunburn. To accidentally touch a moving stone. To cause to be consumed by fire. To overheat so as to make unusable. To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals. To betray. To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip. To waste (time). To insult or defeat. In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair. Also to deal a dead card.

Example sentence: I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

Sting

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point.To bite.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A bump left on the skin after having been stung.A bite by an insect.A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermisA police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.A brief sequence of music used in films & TV as a form of punctuation in a dramatic or comedic scene.A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.

We hope you now know whether to use Burn or Sting in your sentence.

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