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traumatize, v.|ˈtrɔːmətaɪz, ˈtraʊ-|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
1. trans. To inflict a wound upon, to wound (as in a surgical operation).
1903Therapeutic Gaz. Feb. 100/1 In spite of the general insensibility the orifices retain their sensibility, the patient struggling when they are traumatized, though he will preserve no recollection of this. 1929Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 July 116/2 The white bands disappeared promptly when care was taken not to traumatize the fold of skin with the orangewood stick. 1954S. Duke-Elder Parson's Dis. Eye (ed. 12) xxii. 361 In this way they may be severely traumatized; and at the same time the wave of pressure, striking the retina and choroid, may do considerable damage.
2. To inflict an emotional wound or shock upon; to impair or damage psychologically. Also fig.
1949M. Mead Male & Female xvi. 336 Two bitter little rivals may otherwise spend hours quarrelling and traumatizing each other. 1958Spectator 28 Feb. 255/1 A Roman Catholic lad who traumatised me by telling me that God was always about. 1965New Statesman 17 Dec. 960/2 In the intervening period, 34 people were killed..1,032 were injured... The event has traumatised California. 1970A. Toffler Future Shock x. 194 The year 2000 is closer to us in time than the great depression, yet the world's economists, traumatized by that historic disaster, remain frozen in the attitudes of the past. 1974Sci. Amer. Aug. 56/2 For children who come from environments in which the capacity of the family to function has been most severely traumatized by such destructive forces as poverty, ill health and discrimination, the consequences for the child are seen [etc.]. 1979P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express (1980) xiii. 264 The passengers were either asleep or sitting silently, traumatized by the heat.
Hence traumatiˈzation; ˈtraumatized, ˈtraumatizing ppl. adjs.
1935Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. XXXII. 1249 If profound and fatal shock is to be obtained in the intact dog by traumatization, the severity of tissue injury must be very much greater than is required to induce shock symptoms in the equally healthy and vigorous animal lacking adrenal glands. 1935Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. CXI. 430 Such traumatized animals lacking adrenals die within 24 hours or less. 1949M. Mead Male & Female v. 118 Two inexperienced adolescents had a first sex-affair..and became traumatized by their own clumsiness. 1950E. H. Erikson Childhood & Society (1951) i. 37 The condition started with such damage, or at least with momentary traumatization. 1966Lancet 31 Dec. 1464/1 Fat from traumatised adipose tissue can on occasion enter the circulation and produce fat-embolisation. 1971K. Millett Sexual Politics (1972) ii. iv. 180 We perceive that the traumatizing circumstance of being born black in a white racist society invests skin color with symbolic value. 1977M. Sokolinsky tr. Merle's Virility Factor xvi. 330 There is an excess of love..an instinct that, in women, is no longer stifled by the traumatizing sense of her social inferiority. 1979Daily Tel. 31 Oct. 15/2 Thousands of traumatised survivors of the Pol Pot horrors were starving and dying. 1979Nature 13 Dec. 727/1 It was important to ascertain whether our surgical procedure led to any transient denervation or traumatisation of synapses made by the soleus nerve. |