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To traumatize someone is to shock or hurt them so badly that the damage stays with them for a long time afterwards. It is what an event does to a person: war traumatizes soldiers, a violent home traumatizes children. You will most often meet it in the passive — 'she was traumatized by the crash' — or as the adjective-like past participle, 'traumatized children'. The strong meaning is serious and is used by doctors, therapists, and journalists about real lasting harm. But like traumatic, this word gets stretched for comedy in everyday speech: 'my showed me a horror film when I was six and I'm still traumatized', 'I saw my teacher at the swimming pool — traumatized'. Everyone understands this is a joke; the is the joke. It is fine among friends and wrong in serious writing. Spelling: traumatize is standard in the United States and also perfectly acceptable in Britain, while traumatise with an s is the common British newspaper spelling. Pick one and stay consistent.
使受創傷、讓人留下心理陰影。台灣日常會說「留下陰影」「嚇出陰影」，例如「小時候被狗咬，留下陰影」；正式或心理學脈絡則說「造成創傷」
組成Borrowed from French traumatiser. Under it: Greek trauma, a wound, plus the -ize ending that means 'to make something be this way'. So traumatize = to wound someone, in the deep and lasting sense.
同家族的字
- traumathe root — the wound
- traumaticthe adjective from the same root
- traumatizedits past participle, used like an adjective
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
traumatizeverb/ˈtɹɔ.mə.taɪz/
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medicinepathologysciencesTo injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
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human-sciencesmedicinepsychiatryTo cause a trauma in.
- I was traumatized by a childhood experience.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。