Sentence examples for traumatise from inspiring English sources
'traumatise' is a perfectly acceptable word in written English
You can use it to describe an event or situation causing emotional distress, such as a traumatic experience or trauma. For example: "The wartime experiences he had endured had traumatised him for many years afterwards".
verb
(pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
Their big fear was that the shock of contact with the west would traumatise them, or make them so different they could never return.
Teenagers need to experiment with stupid trends, join their peers in sporting tattered neon wristbands or dropped crotch monkey jeans, and traumatise parents with slapped-on clown makeup.
SCANDALS, recalls, stingy customers, anxious regulators any one of these would traumatise a chief executive.
Defeat would discourage similar experiments and also traumatise Hamburg's government, which had been seen as a model for a national CDU/Green coalition one day.Education keeps Germany in a perpetual state of angst.
Rape and child molestation are terrible crimes that can traumatise their victims for life.
What they mainly seem to have done is traumatise pupils and teachers and over-burden examiners.One solution to the problems of over-specialisation and attritional exams, and to the widespread suspicion that standards are declining a suspicion the government denies, but that its own reforms help to foster could be the International Baccalaureate (IB).
He has already spoken with Ms Saunders about ways to improve prosecution rates in cases involving highly traumatised women, and said he would be seeking advice on whether juju reversal could unintentionally re-traumatise women.
He was sent to prison, where he served a sentence of 24 days, an experience that traumatised him.
His production of Ben Jonson's The Devil Is an Ass applied the knife to yards of text, and his West Yorkshire Playhouse production of the children's classic Peter Pan was so dark and grim that one set of parents threatened to sue on the grounds that their child had been traumatised.
As Syria's civil war has intensified, thousands of children have died in brutal attacks and many more have been injured, traumatised or forced to flee their homes.
They have seen and experienced things that no child should ever see, and many are deeply traumatised as a result.
