0 in a way that causes severe and lasting emotional shock and pain:
The tragedy traumatically linked two neighbourhoods at opposite ends of a city.
A 50-year marriage is traumatically dissolved by the onset of the wife's Alzheimer's.
Two teenage girls will discover, traumatically, that they are not on the right bus.
England, having gone two up against Germany, were traumatically defeated 3-2.
1 in a way that causes or relates to physical injury by violence or an accident:
The illness really knocked him down pretty quickly and traumatically.
When things happen traumatically, it can sharpen the focus on how you deal with them.
My mother's best friend was killed traumatically when she was struck by a drunk driver.
At that point I traumatically found out that there was no coffee.
Intracranial injury occurs when an external force traumatically injures the brain.
During this period, 383 children under 16 were traumatically injured by all-terrain or off-road vehicles.