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- verb transitive (pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other
agents . - verb transitive (psychiatry) To cause a
trauma in; as, to be traumatised by a childhood experience.
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- verb inflict a trauma upon
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Examples
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That could traumatise a few younger viewers but being just about the only other women in the movie apart from Cruz, it also suggests something more worrying beneath the light-hearted mateyness.
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Yeah, using sexual assault to traumatise a character is a lame way to go about it, and it is essentially a shortcut.
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Moving house, buying a new brand of cat food etc. seemed to traumatise them.
Cats for Obama again 2008
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Coy descriptions of the many thousands of rockets launched from Gaza over the past years as being "home-made" does not diminish either their effectiveness to destroy and maim or to terrify and traumatise but the media and their sponsors would have us believe that this was not so.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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These developments have traumatise the Congolese populations and greatly shocked the people of the region, the African people and finally the international community only now.
International Community Not Doing Enough Top Stop Genocide in The D R.Congo Ajong77 2009
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What, do you wanna traumatise the kids of the world?
Movie Review: Harry Potter And The Half-Price Bargain « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009
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Kyle and Jackie O re-traumatise a child rape victim on air
Drop It Like It’s Hot Renee 2009
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Kyle and Jackie O re-traumatise a child rape victim on air
Archive 2009-08-01 Renee 2009
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I could go on but I'm starting to traumatise myself.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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I could go on but I'm starting to traumatise myself.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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