trauma
IPA: trˈɔmʌ
noun
- Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
- An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
- An event that causes great distress.
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Examples of "trauma" in Sentences
- From the point of view of the subject, this trauma is a hole, a tear in the symbolic tissue.
- Petrov walked into the court-room on crutches due to what he called a trauma from the time of the assassination attempt against him in 2002.
- "Summer is what we call trauma season," says Matthew Denenberg, division chief for pediatrics at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich.
- As Carlson notes, this trauma is the work of literature itself: For [Shelley], the value of creative writing is in 'preparing' readers for the inability to be prepared.
- ; w; * trauma, trauma* mi casita se puso a saltar la cuerda! pero luego me di cuenta que no era solo mi casita it was todo el Peru que creo que le gusto demasiado Jump it * 0*
- Aleksei Petrov, one of the most striking and mysterious figures from Bulgaria's 20-year transition, walked into the court-room on crutches due to what he called a trauma from a 2002 assassination attempt.
- As Danielle Gardner, whose brother Douglas Gardner worked at Cantor Fitzgerald and died in the World Trade Center, wrote in a remarkable essay published in 2005, I have learned about the whacked-out phenomenon I term trauma envy.
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