traumatize
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- traumatise (non-Oxford British spelling)
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From French traumatiser.
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traumatize (third-person singular simple present traumatizes, present participle traumatizing, simple past and past participle traumatized)
- (transitive, pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
- (transitive, psychiatry) To cause a trauma in.
- I was traumatized by a childhood experience.
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to injure
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to cause a trauma
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