Shock

Usage examples of traumatize.

Lord Struthers has sent word that his wife is severely traumatized by the incident.

Bizarrely, I catch a glimpse of myself in a gilded mirror: a headless, traumatized figure in gore-rimmed torn pajamas, drink in hand, floating the lamest of bons mots at a crowd of swank, grotesquely ignorant party-goers -- in a warm, sumptuous paradise of a room, amid ornate carpets and polished things gleaming in lamplight.

He had been concerned in the early hours of the morning that she would be traumatized by the roughest elements of the city.

Christmas with all these traumatized blokes coming back from captivity.

Many traumatized persons remain fragile for years and easily triggered into an unpleasant emotional state over which they have little control.

Iraqi civil society has been traumatized, and the reconstruction of Iraq must deal with this issue as well.

In one case, the victim had been too traumatized to take part in an identification parade.

Conversely, Marcy had three brothers, and he suspected that she had been somehow traumatized by the experience.

He was fatigued, running on no food or sleep, walking the Path of Illumination, traumatized by two brutal murders.

You've just undergone an operation without anesthesia and you're still adrenalized, traumatized, and weak.

Each was given its own sharply delineated personality traits: the Aristocratic Philosopher: the Promiscuous Child-Woman: the First Rich Ex--Wife (a Bitch): the Aging Groupie: the Pope’s Driver: the Underwater Plumber: the Traumatized Quar­terback: the Blackballed Golfer: the Three Society Girls: the Playboys: the Golden Child and His Ideal Mother: the Deceitful Publisher: the Angry Profes­sor: the Goddess of Victory (an exceptionally beautiful cyborg modeled after Kronos’s abandoned lover.

Its well-intentioned wanderings and blunderings were somehow meant to be combined with the fierce determination of a piebald pony, running in its tight circle with a kind of traumatized invariance, apparently prepared to keep doing that forever while the elephant plodded helplessly about, so anxious to please, black rheum thrown off from its eyes like sweat, its damp-damaged hide lightly coated with the kind of hair that sprouts out near a healing wound, gingery and brittle, like the weft of baklava.

But Liir was terrified, and the cook threatened to disappear and leave the group traumatized by an inability to do a really topnotch bechamel sauce in the wilderness.

We may be traumatizing every child in the land, and every adult who is reckless enough to smile at (or, God forbid, touch) one, and glamorizing what must after all be a fairly lame and pathetic pleasure at best, and giving demagogues and lynch mobs something to work with, and we may even be making the problem itself substantially worse, and hampering efforts to deal with it—.

He would know ft, and could confirm for us that the place connected to the base Build-more was constructing was Pygmalion's stronghold—much as Jytte had managed to do on our recent recon of the Pulliam estate, ft was the right choice, the logical choice, but part of me rebelled at the idea of bringing a 5-year-old child back to the place where he had been traumatized.