| 单词 | traumatize |
| 释义 | traumatize (once / 25255 pages) v To traumatize someone is to make them feel a severe, lasting sense of shock and hurt. Being in a bad car accident can traumatize anyone. In medicine, to traumatize is to hurt or injure physically, but this verb is used more often in everyday speech to mean "harm psychologically or emotionally." War and violence traumatize many people around the world, and even something as seemingly harmless as a scary movie can traumatize a young child. Traumatize comes from trauma, "physical wound" in medical Latin and "a wound, hurt, or defeat" in Greek. WORD FAMILYtraumatize: traumatized, traumatizes, traumatizing+/trauma: traumas, traumata, traumatic, traumatise, traumatize/traumatic: traumatically/traumatise: traumatised USAGE EXAMPLESAngry, traumatized protesters cry, march, shout, smash windows, set fires — and that’s just the New York Times editorial board. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) The survivors, shattered and traumatized, prepared to abandon the city. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) She told university investigators she was too traumatized to remember events clearly. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) v inflict a trauma upon Syn|Hyper shock, traumatise injure, wound cause injuries or bodily harm to |
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