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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: inflict a trauma upon [syn: traumatize, traumatise, shock]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-tized; -tizing) Date: 1903 to inflict a trauma upon • traumatization noun

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(traumatizes, traumatizing, traumatized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'traumatise' If someone is traumatized by an event or situation, it shocks or upsets them very much, and may cause them psychological damage. My wife was traumatized by the experience... Did his parents traumatize him?... Traumatising a child with an abnormal fear of strangers probably won't do much good. ...young children traumatised by their parents' deaths. VERB: be V-ed, V n, V n with n, V-ed • traumatized He left her in the middle of the road, shaking and deeply traumatized... ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

abrade, affect, bark, blemish, bloody, break, burn, chafe, check, chip, claw, come home to, crack, craze, cut, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, hit, hit the mark, hurt, impress, impress forcibly, incise, injure, lacerate, maim, make an impression, make mincemeat of, maul, mutilate, pierce, puncture, rend, rip, rock, run, rupture, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, sink in, skin, slash, slit, smite, sprain, stab, stick, strain, strike, strike hard, strike home, tear, tell, wound, wrench