traumatise

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

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