Sentence examples for traumatised from inspiring English sources

'traumatised' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe someone who is in a state of emotional or mental shock due to a traumatic event, such as in the sentence "She was so traumatised by the car accident that she was unable to speak for days".

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traumatised

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Past of traumatise

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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.

Previous hostages who have escaped the sect have spoken of rape and mutilation, and some are so traumatised they no longer remember their own names.

Some were so traumatised they refused to ride down and someone had to go and pick them up in a car.

He eventually received a five-figure sum but says he remains traumatised as a result of the incident where a police officer forced him to the ground and then a police dog attacked him causing a serious injury to his arm.

The recent release of Mohammed Jawad, who was detained at the age of 12 in Guantanamo Bay for nearly seven years, reopens wounds in the global psyche traumatised by war.

Marnie is a terrible movie, and a cruel one: the idea that a woman sexually traumatised by her childhood can be saved by submitting to a controlling rapist is offensive, as well as plain wrong.

Local fisherman Harold Benson is still traumatised by the events of 5 February 2004.

The Lib Dem tribe will almost certainly be traumatised by a night of losses directly attributable to its decision to prop up the Conservative party in 2010.

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