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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. [syn: injury, hurt, harm, trauma]
2: an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects [syn: trauma, psychic trauma]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural traumas; also traumata) Etymology: Greek traumat-, trauma wound, alteration of tr?ma; akin to Greek titr?skein to wound, tetrainein to pierce — more at throw Date: circa 1693 1. a. an injury (as a wound) to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent b. a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress or physical injury c. an emotional upset <the personal trauma of an executive who is not living up to his own expectations — Karen W. Arenson> 2. an agent, force, or mechanism that causes trauma • traumatic adjective • traumatically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. traumata or traumas) 1 any physical wound or injury. 2 physical shock following this, characterized by a drop in body temperature, mental confusion, etc. 3 Psychol. emotional shock following a stressful event, sometimes leading to long-term neurosis. Derivatives: traumatize v.tr. (also -ise). traumatization n. Etymology: Gk trauma traumatos wound

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(traumas) Trauma is a very severe shock or very upsetting experience, which may cause psychological damage. I'd been through the trauma of losing a house... The officers are claiming compensation for trauma after the disaster. N-VAR

Moby Thesaurus

abrasion, ambivalence, ambivalence of impulse, anaphylactic shock, battle fatigue, blemish, blow, break, burn, chafe, check, chip, collapse, combat fatigue, concussion, conflict, crack, crackle, craze, cut, decompensation, derangement, disturbance, emotional shock, external frustration, flash burn, fracture, fray, frazzle, frustration, gall, gash, hurt, hypoglycemic shock, incision, injury, laceration, lesion, mental shock, mortal wound, mutilation, neurogenic shock, protein shock, psychological stress, puncture, rent, rip, run, rupture, scald, scorch, scrape, scratch, scuff, second-degree burn, secondary shock, serum shock, shell shock, shock, slash, sore, stab, stab wound, stress, surgical shock, tear, thanatosis, third-degree burn, traumatism, upset, wound, wound shock, wounds immedicable, wrench