traumatize

English

Alternative forms

• traumatise (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

From French traumatiser.

Pronunciation

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Verb

traumatize (third-person singular simple present traumatizes, present participle traumatizing, simple past and past participle traumatized)

1. (transitive, pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
2. (transitive, psychiatry) To cause a trauma in.

   I was traumatized by a childhood experience.

Derived terms

• traumatization

Translations

to injure

• Asturian: traumatizar
• Bulgarian: наранявам (bg) (naranjavam)
• Catalan: traumatitzar (ca)
• Czech: traumatizovat
• French: traumatiser (fr)
• Galician: traumatizar (gl)
• Georgian: ტრავმატიზება (ṭravmaṭizeba)
• Ido: traumatizar (io)
• Italian: traumatizzare
• Portuguese: traumatizar
• Spanish: traumatizar (es)

to cause a trauma

• Asturian: traumatizar
• Belarusian: траўмі́раваць impf or pf (traŭmíravacʹ)
• Bulgarian: травматизирам (travmatiziram)
• Catalan: traumatitzar (ca)
• Czech: traumatizovat
• French: traumatiser (fr)
• Galician: traumatizar (gl)
• Georgian: ტრავმატიზება (ṭravmaṭizeba)
• German: traumatisieren (de)
• Hungarian: traumatizál
• Italian: traumatizzare
• Russian: травми́ровать (ru) (travmírovatʹ)
• Spanish: traumatizar (es)
• Ukrainian: травмува́ти impf or pf (travmuváty)