traumatize
verb (used with object)
to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
has traumatized
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present perfectof traumatize (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“The music has to bring out who she is, and how she suffers, how she dreams, when she has delirium, what has traumatized her when she was a child,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
“Now we have coronavirus, which has traumatized us so profoundly … we look at this same idea of bird flu with completely new eyes, and we bring different kinds of conspiracy to it.”
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022
Steenman alleged earlier this year that the Wit and Wisdom curriculum has "traumatized" dozens of children.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2021
One of the issues Inslee highlighted in his speech was police reform, saying that the “police-citizen violence we saw in 2020 alone has traumatized the nation.”
From Washington Times ● Jan. 13, 2021
But Israeli activists and researchers report that the conflict has traumatized children on both sides of the walls and fences that separate Gaza from Israel.
From Time ● Jul. 22, 2014
