From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtraumatizetrau‧ma‧tize (also traumatise British English) /ˈtrɔːmətaɪz, ˈtraʊ- $ ˈtraʊ-, ˈtrɒː-/ verb [transitive usually passive] SHOCKto shock someone so badly that they are affected by it for a very long time He was traumatized by his war experiences. —traumatized adjective→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
traumatize• These children have been traumatized by the violence in their home.• In one fell swoop, the authors have denied the deeply traumatizing consequences of extreme verbal and emotional abuse.• To bite into the bitter, tannin-filled persimmon is a traumatizing experience. 