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traumatize

[ trou-muh-tahyz, traw- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, trau·ma·tized, trau·ma·tiz·ing.

Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
Psychiatry. to cause a trauma in (the mind):
to be traumatized by a childhood experience.

traumatize

/ ˈtrɔːməˌtaɪz /

First recorded in 1900–05, traumatize is from the Greek word traumatízein to wound. See traumatic, -ize

The cable network had “lost its mind,” and was going to “traumatize channel surfers.”

The “Crime of the Century” certainly did traumatize Lindbergh.

It is also Palestinians who lob the rockets from Gaza that traumatize southern Israel.

Christmas has always been neck and neck with Halloween for the title of Best Time to Traumatize Your Kids.

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