Definition of "traumatise" []

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

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• "Yeah, using sexual assault to traumatise a character is a lame way to go about it, and it is essentially a shortcut."
• "That could traumatise a few younger viewers but being just about the only other women in the movie apart from Cruz, it also suggests something more worrying beneath the light-hearted mateyness."
• "Moving house, buying a new brand of cat food etc. seemed to traumatise them."