traumatized

adjective

trau·​ma·​tized ˈtrȯ-mə-ˌtīzd 

 also  ˈtrau̇-

: affected by physical or emotional trauma

He has always admitted responsibility for the crash, on the Autobahn between Berlin and Leipzig, which … left him temporarily paralyzed and traumatized.

—John Rockwell

Patients are less traumatized, require shorter hospital stays, and heal faster than with conventional surgery. Yet despite the benefits, laparoscopy is a challenging procedure.

—Kathy A. Svitil

Two traumatized plane-crash survivors, played by Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez, teach each other how to live again.

—Peter Travers

… the many barriers leading to his conviction: for one, victims too traumatized to press charges.

—Eloise Kinney

Examples of traumatized in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There’d be no one left to ask lonely, traumatized mothers anything. —Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024

Many people are traumatized or in mourning; others talk manically about dethroning Hezbollah, and perhaps with it, Lebanon’s centuries-old system of sectarian power-sharing. —Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024

And reporters like Soboroff, invited by the administration to facilities overcrowded with traumatized kids, many of them in cages, were meant to be the messengers of that ugly threat to the world. —Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024

Loading your audio article Sofia Koval, a traumatized teenager who witnessed horrors after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, beat her grandmother to death in May, according to records. —Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined above