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trauma

Definition for trauma

noun as in severe mental or physical pain

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Gandbhir doesn’t shy away from showing the extent of the trauma as it’s happening, giving us a firsthand look at a tragedy unfolding in real time.

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All the old family trauma has bubbled up to the surface since Angie’s disappearance.

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"Mia is a drug-addicted anaesthetist, whose childhood trauma is catching up with her and she's trying to hide all of it," she says.

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The average mammalian species, not to mention the average primate species, lasts about one million to three million years, and most didn’t need an Armageddon-scale trauma to usher them out of the fossil record.

She is “traumatized without trauma. There were footprints on her mind where no one had trod.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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