Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a traumatic manner.
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- adverb In a
traumatic manner.
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Examples
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The guard unit that sponsored the air show urged spectators to seek support if they were traumatically affected.
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It is our policy never to refuse admission of a traumatically injured child.
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In addition, because traumatically injured children frequently experience multiple injuries or serious single system injuries in need of very specialized care, the Trauma Center works with numerous physician services and consults with associate trauma directors representing eight disciplines:
Trauma Center 2010
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It is our policy never to refuse admission of a traumatically injured child.
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In countries with recent memories of horrors such as the Cultural Revolution and, less traumatically but more recently, the mass job losses and currency collapse of Russia in the 1990s, the promise of a government that can keep order and promote prosperity must seem pretty good.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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Ironically, Republicans are putting at severe risk the very rich they claim to protect, whose holdings will be traumatically affected should our nation default on its U.S. bond and other obligations.
Riane Eisler: U.S. Status and Recovery Can't Be Hostage Riane Eisler 2011
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In countries with recent memories of horrors such as the Cultural Revolution and, less traumatically but more recently, the mass job losses and currency collapse of Russia in the 1990s, the promise of a government that can keep order and promote prosperity must seem pretty good.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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The often brutal process of a divorce brings a family stress and pain equal to a death of a close family member, affecting everyone, but nobody more deeply, traumatically and irreversibly than the children.
Dr. Ronald Ricker and Dr. Venus Nicolino: "We Really Must Talk" Dr. Ronald Ricker 2010
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Glad I had the helmet; although it now occurs to me that I might just have an excuse for why I am the way I am, traumatically-induced-asshole.
Single Sided and Fully Enclosed: The Inaccessibility of "Bike Culture" BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The hop-scotching included a traumatically brief stay with the Oakland Raiders in 1988-1989, when Shanahan was fired by owner Al Davis four games into his second season as head coach.
Mike Shanahan takes his life's work to D.C. and Washington Redskins 2010
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