traumatize

IPA: trˈɔmʌtaɪz

(transitive, pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
(transitive, psychiatry) To cause a trauma in.

Examples of "traumatize" in Sentences

Also, the "child" is an adult; how will a paternity test 'traumatize' him?
As silly as it may sound, I do not wan to "traumatize" her for crowns that may no tbe extremely necessary.
But, based on an emotional reaction of "what if I were raped?" they don't want to "traumatize" the mother and have her respect her unborn child's right to life.
She puts it to Charlie Render to merge with her mind and introduce her to the world of sights, so that they do not traumatize her when she's working with a patient.
I can hold my own in Rock Band but not Guitar Hero, I can traumatize the patrons of a karaoke bar, and I am much, much better at trash-talking than at actual gameplay.
But youth leader Boubekri says Algeria has one striking characteristic that other protest-roiled Arab countries do not have; the fallout of a bloody civil war in the 1990s that killed upwards of 100,000 people and continues to traumatize Algerians.
In my undergrad research class I wanted to replicate the Bystander Effect by having a confederate pretend to faint we wanted to look for gender differences in responses by participants and I was told by the IRB that it might "traumatize" my participants.