traumatize

traumatize
[[t]trɔ͟ːmətaɪz, AM tra͟ʊ-[/t]]
traumatizes, traumatizing, traumatized
If someone is traumatized by an event or situation, it shocks or upsets them very much, and may cause them psychological damage.

[be V-ed] My wife was traumatized by the experience...

[V n] Did his parents traumatize him?...

[V n with n] Traumatising a child with an abnormal fear of strangers probably won't do much good.

[V-ed] ...young children traumatised by their parents deaths.

Derived words:
traumatized ADJ-GRADED

He left her in the middle of the road, shaking and deeply traumatized...

He could not cope alone with two traumatized children.

(in BRIT, also use traumatise)

English dictionary. 2008.

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  • traumatize — 1903, of physical wounds; 1949 in the psychological sense, from Gk. traumat , stem of trauma (see TRAUMA (Cf. trauma)) …   Etymology dictionary

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  • traumatize — transitive verb ( tized; tizing) Date: 1903 to inflict a trauma upon • traumatization noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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