Usually means: Inflict deep, lasting emotional wound.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. traumatize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. traumatize: Merriam-Webster
  3. traumatize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. traumatize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. traumatize: Vocabulary.com
  6. traumatize: Wordnik
  7. traumatize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. traumatize: Wiktionary
  9. traumatize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. traumatize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. traumatize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. traumatize: Dictionary.com
  13. traumatize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. traumatize: Rhymezone
  15. traumatize: FreeDictionary.org
  16. traumatize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. traumatize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. traumatize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. traumatize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. traumatize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. traumatize: Medical dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive, pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
▸ verb:  (transitive, psychiatry) To cause a trauma in.

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shock, traumatise, retraumatize, irritate, touch, affect, take something to, cicatrize, toxify, subject, more...



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shock, traumatise, retraumatize, irritate, touch, affect, take something to, cicatrize, toxify, subject, more...



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