traumatize
verb (used with object)
to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
had traumatized
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past perfectof traumatize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The juror who started it all told the deputies that they had traumatized the potential jurors, according to the reporter.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
The revelation that her children had blithely enjoyed a television show starring the man who had traumatized her life hit unexpectedly hard, Valentino said.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2016
The two world wars had traumatized her—her brother was killed in the first, and her father during the Blitz, while Yates herself volunteered as an ambulance attendant—exacerbating her already melancholy temperament.
From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2015
I took that as a tactful inquiry as to whether my education had traumatized me and forced me to stop composing — he had been worrying about this for nearly 20 years!
From New York Times ● May 14, 2011
But the U.S. had finally extricated itself from a war that had traumatized American society for a whole generation.
From Time Magazine Archive
