traumatise
IPA: trˈɔmʌtaɪz
verb
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of traumatize. [(transitive, pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.]
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Examples of "traumatise" in Sentences
- What, do you wanna traumatise the kids of the world?
- I could go on but I'm starting to traumatise myself.
- Kyle and Jackie O re-traumatise a child rape victim on air
- I shall leave it where it is as I don't want to traumatise anyone...
- Moving house, buying a new brand of cat food etc. seemed to traumatise them.
- Yeah, using sexual assault to traumatise a character is a lame way to go about it, and it is essentially a shortcut.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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