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Damsel in distress is where the woman needs saving.
Fridging is where the woman has faced near or fully irreparable harm or death and the hero feels a need to avenge her as a result.
That's only half of it. The point is that a woman is killed/harmed and her story cut short, simply to start the male hero's story.
Totally agree bodily harm applies to damsel in distress. I think it's not the entire focus unlike fridging though.
It's a bit of a square/rectangle thing. All of the women who get fridged are/were damsels, but not all damsels get fridged.
Oh, I think it works as a subtrope really well that way
and rob roying is when the woman is raped and the guy has to fight a sword duel against a better British sword fighter but uses tricks to win