- past participle of traumatize.
- past tense form of traumatize.
traumatized
Example Sentences
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Jordan, who escapes relatively unscathed, is at once cowed and traumatized yet committed to vengeance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
But that is the way much of Jordan’s narration reads, a mixture of traumatized testimony, tortured confession and furious screed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
That procedure, they argued, would result in “Christa involuntarily reliving the worst moments of her life, much like traumatized soldiers when they return from a war zone.”
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
With a PG-13 rating that gets away with quite a bit, the action harkens back to the days of “Poltergeist,” a PG-rated film that had whole families walking out of the theater traumatized and silent.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Maybe we would look harder for solutions to caring for the disabled, the abused, the neglected, and the traumatized.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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