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What does traumatise mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive, pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
  2. (psychiatry) To cause a trauma in.
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It is utterly reprehensible to threaten and traumatise children, parents and teachers.
Teenagers need to experiment with stupid trends, join their peers in sporting tattered neon wristbands or dropped crotch monkey jeans, and traumatise parents with slapped-on clown makeup.
Their big fear was that the shock of contact with the west would traumatise them, or make them so different they could never return.
Furthermore, because soft silicone dressings are easily removed, they do not traumatise the wound or the surrounding skin and therefore do not interfere with wound healing.
Education has been severely disrupted by the curfews and restrictions on movement, and traumatise children are achieving results well below norm.
But, one guaranteed to traumatise the hoarder and make the hoarding subsequently worse.

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