Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.

  2. (transitive)To cause a trauma in.

    I was traumatized by a childhood experience.

    traumatisieren

    травми́роватьtravmírovatʹ

    травмува́тиtravmuváty

    inflict a trauma upon

Examples

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  1. Tom was so traumatized he could barely speak.

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  2. Tom is still very traumatized by what happened.

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  3. Tom and Mary were traumatized.

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  4. Tom is traumatized.

    deTom ist traumatisiert.

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  5. This accident has psychologically traumatized him.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to cause a trauma:
Русский
By meaning 1
to cause a trauma:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to cause a trauma:

Origin

Borrowed from French traumatiser.

Borrowed from French traumatiser.

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Forms

traumatizes, traumatizing, traumatized, traumatized
Base formtraumatize · to traumatize
3rd person singulartraumatizes
Present participletraumatizing
Past simpletraumatized
Past participletraumatized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytraumatize
he, she, ittraumatizes

Past simpleLesson

all personstraumatized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave traumatized
he, she, ithas traumatized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill traumatize

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words
Relatedtrauma
Derivedretraumatizetraumatizationtraumatizedtraumatizertraumatizing

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
trashytraumaC1traumaticC1travelA1travellerA2traverseB2
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