traumatize
verb (used with object)
to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
will traumatize
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future tenseof traumatize.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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He worries that this will traumatize his community in perpetuity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
“My husband and I decided that we will traumatize them no more” by keeping them in schools where few looked like them, Fatima says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2022
Skeptics sometimes ask Neal whether administering emergency care will traumatize a young person, to which he responds, “It may be more traumatic to stand there and watch someone die.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
