(~s, traumatizing, ~d)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'traumatise'
If someone is ~d by an event or situation, it shocks or upsets them very much, and may cause them psychological damage.
My wife was ~d by the experience...
Did his parents ~ him?...
Traumatising a child with an abnormal fear of strangers probably won’t do much good.
...young children traumatised by their parents’ deaths.
VERB: be V-ed, V n, V n with n, V-ed
~d
He left her in the middle of the road, shaking and deeply ~d...
ADJ