traumatize
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“This country has done nothing but traumatize me in the last six months. Maybe I’ll just move to Spain.”
From Slate • Dec. 11, 2025
“Our Board of Supervisors knows that these conditions beneath human dignity stigmatize and traumatize people and make all of us less safe.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023
“If they’ve betrayed the person they love the most while that trauma bond is still strong, they internalize the guilt and that can destabilize them or traumatize them further.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2023
The movie's footage was so unsettling that parents' groups claimed the film would traumatize children and even scare them away from Christmas.
From Salon • Oct. 14, 2023
“We didn’t mean to traumatize you. This isn’t how I imagined this going.”
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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