0 present participle of traumatize
1 to shock and upset someone severely and for a long time:
She was completely traumatized by the death of her mother.
This all implies that dreams may be positive, exploratory, creative play, when they are not dealing specifically with an anomaly intense enough to be traumatizing.
Traumatizing effect of breech delivery on infants with spina bifida.
His parents, occupied with guilt for being responsible for the accident, avoided discussing the event with him out of fear of further traumatizing him.
It then progresses to a series of highly traumatizing experiences for the whole family.
Emotional contact like traumatizing events can be erased, much easier than other memories.
He used dissociation to describe the way in which traumatizing memories are stored separately from other memories.
He survives, but his long, painful recovery is as traumatizing as the injury.
Because of the extreme and traumatizing nature of the show's content, the authenticity of the show is heavily debated.
