Crossword clues for traumatise
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of traumatize; for suffix, see -ize. Related: Traumatised; traumatising.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive English) (''pathology'') To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents. 2 (context transitive English) (''psychiatry'') To cause a trauma in; as, ''to be traumatised by a childhood experience''. vb. 1 (context transitive English) (''pathology'') To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents. 2 (context transitive English) (''psychiatry'') To cause a trauma in; as, ''to be traumatised by a childhood experience''.
WordNet
v. inflict a trauma upon [syn: traumatize, shock]
Usage examples of "traumatise".
The narcissist is a person who is irreparably traumatised by the behaviour of the most important adults in his life: his parents.
I had been subjected to interrogation routines that would have traumatised most human beings for a lifetime.
Some bastard had cauterized all the synapses and electronically traumatised those two lumps of cerebellum.
Most of the second half passed by in the same way, until with five minutes to go Manchester United scored … and with two minutes to go, in traumatising and muddled slow motion, they scored again.