traumatize

• traumatise (non-Oxford British English)

From French traumatiser.

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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.

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