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What is the verb for trauma?

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traumatise
  1. (transitive, pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
  2. (psychiatry) To cause a trauma in.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Although Crook had a tough time in his teens, he insists it did not traumatise him.”
      “Their big fear was that the shock of contact with the west would traumatise them, or make them so different they could never return.”
      “If this show manages to traumatise you, perhaps you should consider turning to Stairway To Heaven on Monday nights.”
traumatize
  1. Alternative spelling of traumatise
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The divorce of parents can easily traumatize the children.”
      “Apply a gloved finger under the dressing to support the skin graft so that removal does not pull at the skin or traumatize the skin graft.”
      “The shock of inhuman brutality was sufficient to traumatize the inhabitants into submission.”
traumatizes
traumatises
traumatized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of traumatize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The bulk of my professional practise has revolved around assessing and treating traumatized individuals.”
      “Often too the parents are severely traumatized by the experience of detention, which reduces their ability to parent their children.”
      “A vast array of social problems afflict a country so recently traumatized by war.”
traumatised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of traumatise
  2. Examples:
    1. “By the time they got to us the girl must have been feeling traumatised, because she asked if she could borrow a teddy bear for the night.”
      “Soaked through with sweat and shaken to the core, I faced my first few classes in a traumatised daze.”
      “Both families held by the gang responsible were later freed unharmed, but deeply traumatised.”
traumatizing
  1. present participle of traumatize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Hospital admission can be a traumatizing event for patients and subjects them to the inevitable treatment errors that occur in this setting.”
      “Finally, after about half an hour of traumatizing arguing, they got Jessica to stay in her little trundle bed.”
      “It was among the most unpleasant and traumatizing experiences of my life and deeply underlined my already well-set negative self-image.”
traumatising
  1. present participle of traumatise
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He claimed the dog was shot as she went for a peahen after being suspected of savaging one peacock and traumatising another.”
      “The decision should also take into account a likely traumatising parental experience as in febrile convulsions.”
      “Writers saw something captivating about trains and the potentially liberating but traumatising experience of riding in them.”
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