Associations to the word «Traumatise»

Wiktionary

TRAUMATISE, verb. (transitive) (pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
TRAUMATISE, verb. (transitive) (psychiatry) To cause a trauma in; as, to be traumatised by a childhood experience.

Dictionary definition

TRAUMATISE, verb. Inflict a trauma upon.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley