traumatize

English

Alternative forms

• traumatise (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

From French traumatiser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɔ.mə.taɪz/, /ˈtɹaʊ.mə.taɪz/

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Verb

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.

Derived terms

• retraumatize
• traumatization

Translations

to injure

Asturian: traumatizar Bulgarian: наранявам (bg) (naranjavam) Catalan: traumatitzar (ca) Czech: traumatizovat French: traumatiser (fr) Galician: traumatizar (gl) Georgian: ტრავმატიზება (ṭravmaṭizeba) Ido: traumatizar (io) Italian: traumatizzare Portuguese: traumatizar Spanish: traumatizar (es)

to cause a trauma

Afrikaans: traumatiseer Asturian: traumatizar Belarusian: траўмі́раваць impf or pf (trawmíravacʹ) Bulgarian: травматизирам (travmatiziram) Catalan: traumatitzar (ca) Czech: traumatizovat Dutch: traumatiseren (nl) French: traumatiser (fr) Galician: traumatizar (gl) Georgian: ტრავმატიზება (ṭravmaṭizeba) German: traumatisieren (de) Hungarian: traumatizál Italian: traumatizzare Russian: травми́ровать (ru) (travmírovatʹ) Spanish: traumatizar (es) Ukrainian: травмува́ти impf or pf (travmuváty)