How To Use Traumatize In A Sentence

His traumatised son was expelled from two schools. Times, Sunday Times
Khan said the Pakistani Government's refusal to grant his wife a visa has traumatised the entire family.
Although Crook had a tough time in his teens, he insists it did not traumatise him.
The policy, designed to leave families homeless, impoverished and traumatized, is illegal because international law forbids the demolition of houses by an occupying power.
Keep in mind that animals are also often traumatized by captivity and display bizarre behavior untypical of their kind unless treated with respect and dignity.

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No mere endpapers, they continue, in their unwrittenness, to evoke the narrator's traumatized mind. The Times Literary Supplement
‘The unit is a good example of inter-agency co-operation in the interest of those who have been traumatised by sexual violence,’ she said.
A cynic is someone who once trusted and believe and was hurt, betrayed and traumatized. Mark Goulston, M.D.: Electorate 2010 -- "Cynics 'R' Us"
Gardai said the victim was very shocked and traumatised by the ordeal but didn't require hospitalisation.
One aspect of such reality is that tragic accidents and violence happen and they shock and traumatize the victim's body, mind and soul at the time and for the rest of their life.
September 11 traumatized our collective consciousness, and repairing the city is a way of healing ourselves.
Some of these people are feeling scared, defensive and deeply traumatised by the criticism and abuse we have been subjected to over the past two years. Times, Sunday Times
And if she'd come face to face with that monster she could have been traumatised. The Sun
The students, far from being traumatized by the act (which is described as appreciative rather than "investigatory") seem to take it in stride as a personal eccentricity of Hector's. PegasusNews.com stories
Instead they live out their days in the rescue centre, eating and sleeping in a guarded compound and acting as counsellors to other traumatised victims. Times, Sunday Times
Although the death toll, at about 190, is a fraction of the number killed in America, this brutal attack on a business capital has traumatised an entire country.
From the dark skinned Grandfather who I never met, an alcoholic baker, from the Grandmother traumatised by “The Troubles”, from the Mother with skin scarred by burns, serving time in a hospital which rewarded her with diphtheria and isolation. Archive 2008-02-01
OUR war veterans traumatised by combat stress need all the help they can get. The Sun
Thus the Jewish state, desperate for peace and institutionally traumatised from six decades of exterminatory attrition directed at it solely for the crime of existing, has its victimisation not only erased but turned against it in a systematic inversion of truth and lies. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
It's like a compelling bad dream whose inscrutable images persist in the traumatised moments after waking.
Evidence of this came two years ago when, to some bemusement, property prices began to play catch-up with less traumatised parts of the county.
Leaving aside the debatable claim that a child may be traumatised by being blooded, hunting harms no-one.
As silly as it may sound, I do not wan to "traumatize" her for crowns that may no tbe extremely necessary. White Crowns For Baby Teeth
It's like a compelling bad dream whose inscrutable images persist in the traumatised moments after waking.
He survived, but was terribly traumatised by the experience.
So traumatized by what he saw in China, and so ashamed of being a human, the man returns to his village thinking he is a snake, slithering on the ground, hissing at former friends and family.
Do the programme's traumatised snakes and hunted piggies count?
If the external carotid artery territory is affected, sacrifice of the traumatized arterial segment is best performed with glue in our experience.
The list is endless when the spinal cord is traumatized and some will make a partial or, in my case, a complete recovery.
The film follows these traumatised people as their paths cross after the tragedy. The Sun
They are also more relaxed and calm, which helps to stop them becoming traumatised again when they revisit painful memories. Times, Sunday Times
But brain and heart are fragile and often traumatized tissue in Frank's world.
The teen was threatened, but not physically harmed although the attack left her traumatized, Thiessen said.
On the other hand, fear of being stigmatized was a key reason that traumatized soldiers didn't seek help while still in the military, an earlier study showed.
Also, the "child" is an adult; how will a paternity test 'traumatize' him? "$perm wail by donor."
I think if people are feeling sad or depressed or what we call vicarious traumatization, so that somebody else is traumatized and you vicariously experience the symptoms of post traumatic distress disorder, or acute stress disorder, then you need to talk to others for support, for counsel. CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2007
After all, it rarely addresses the full costs of those conflicts to U.S. troops (including their redeployment to war zones, even when already traumatized), let alone to foreign non-combatants in faraway Muslim lands. William J. Astore: The New American Isolationism: The Cost of Turning Away From War's Horrific Realities
This would explain why alternating stimulation often initially produces powerful abreactions in traumatized patients.
She was invalided out of South Wales Police with a stress-related illness in 1992, after being traumatised by discovering a man who had killed himself with exhaust fumes in his car.
The cold-blooded taking of life that has so traumatised the people of Norway and the whole world is evil. Times, Sunday Times
She was traumatised when her doctoral thesis was failed outright, apparently because one examiner was biased against her.
Like so many traumatized children, they were acting it out again and again, Elliott explains, until they could see it in a way that made sense to them.
The mental devastation of this experience has seriously traumatized him, leaving him full of fear.
Often traumatized people try to restore the lost illusions shattered by trauma through some form of what I have called resurrective ideology . Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden
They strolled around the pitch looking traumatised and bereft. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, a lot of cases involving apparently decent white middle-class couples being turned down have at root the fact that the potential parents have been deemed unable to appreciate how to raise a traumatised child for whom all the normal "supernanny" rules do not apply. Parents who adopt abused children hampered by woeful lack of support
He was traumatized as a child, apparently, when his mentally ill father forced him to kill a thief.
Both worked at a rehabilitation centre for traumatised servicemen. The Sun
I remember speaking to a woman who was a prison officer "looking after" hindley. she told me about the "beautifull" gay marriage of 2 inmates where hindley was a bridegroom! what a picture of a woman who procured children for rape, torture and death now being a bridegroom at a gay wedding in a prison .... do gooders are ruining the society they live in by rewarding and comforting scum like hindley - and in this case fritzl who in life is a really nasty, weak, pathetic and pointless individual ... footnote: - Elisabeth is so traumatised by the torture she was subjected to by her pointless "father" that she cant yet be interviewed about her "life" in a cellar. New Statesman
It is at the same time important to note that if clients do not have unresolved traumatic stresses, then the likelihood of their being retraumatized by bodywork is all the less.
The world has been buffeted by waves of terror that have traumatised Eastern as well as Western societies.
He didn't want to risk that subjects might become stressed or would be traumatized in any way.
He travelled via England, where he was interned as an enemy alien and shipped to Australia, but in 1942 he found his way back, and was given a job treating traumatised soldiers.
Spent all Friday night either puking, clearing up puke, or comforting hot, traumatised little ones, who are not so little anymore.
She puts it to Charlie Render to merge with her mind and introduce her to the world of sights, so that they do not traumatize her when she's working with a patient. REVIEW: Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny
They strolled around the pitch looking traumatised and bereft. Times, Sunday Times
Totodet was still traumatized by his job as the jail's "gravedigger," dumping hundreds of his fellow prisoners into mass graves. Reed Brody: Justice Denied in Africa
She was devastated and traumatised in the aftermath of the Pullathomas landslide.
He was traumatised by the years spent in juvenile and adult jails. The Sun
The shock of inhuman brutality was sufficient to traumatize the inhabitants into submission.
My dear brothers and sisters, I have chosen to appear before you to offer my deepest regrets and unqualified apologies to a traumatized nation.
These children are also traumatized . One in every five Iraqi registered in Syria as a victim of torturer or extreme violence.
The incident has been damned by local councillor Cronin, who said that the boys and their families had been severely traumatised by the events.
To his considerable dismay, the clearly traumatised girl refuses to disclose the whereabouts of her mother, a former folk singer who was last seen in the company of a religious fanatic named David Minor.
He was traumatized as a child, apparently, when his mentally ill father forced him to kill a thief.
If you like, they overidentify with others, which is perhaps why you feel so traumatised by the idea of detaching. Times, Sunday Times
The point is not to permanently traumatize anyone — the researchers who performed this experiment quickly followed it with a ritual absolving the child of blame.
The students, far from being traumatized by the act (which is described as appreciative rather than "investigatory") seem to take it in stride as a personal eccentricity of Hector's. PegasusNews.com stories
They visit scenes of death and attend autopsies, take witness statements and liaise between traumatised relatives, police, solicitors and doctors.
All the cash is being doled out to military causes to help the traumatised or the needy. The Sun
It shows the national hero traumatized and self-doubting, and vanquished by forces he never quite understands. The Times Literary Supplement
She slept soundly, the sort of slumber that only such elixirs of Morpheus could induce in one so traumatized by the day's events.
The bulk of my professional practise has revolved around assessing and treating traumatized individuals.
He left her in the middle of the road, shaking and deeply traumatized.
She said the experience traumatized her kids for life and put a permanent nix on their relationship with their father.
He once accidentally burnt a cub alive in his garden bonfire; the experience traumatised him and finds its way into the book. Times, Sunday Times
The whole sordid saga has traumatised me. Times, Sunday Times
Some of these people are feeling scared, defensive and deeply traumatised by the criticism and abuse we have been subjected to over the past two years. Times, Sunday Times
Anne dropped back into the dent of her upholstered chair, traumatized. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The lady whose house was burgled was extremely traumatised and now can't go downstairs at night.
In my undergrad research class I wanted to replicate the Bystander Effect by having a confederate pretend to faint we wanted to look for gender differences in responses by participants and I was told by the IRB that it might "traumatize" my participants. Archive 2009-01-01
It seemed to me that she wasn't traumatized at the end with the clinker.
Presently he found himself struggling up the Via Dolorosa in the company of exhausted or perhaps traumatized pilgrims. LOADED QUESTIONS
It took 30 years, 3,500 deaths, 10,000 injuries, an unquantifiable number of traumatised individuals, the loss of thousands of jobs and the destruction of millions of pounds worth of property.
It was so heartbreaking to see lots of people traumatised by the war and living in bombed out buildings.
But seriously, is the story of a traumatized father searching to help his long-term comatose son at a strange clinic where the staff are all lunatics, an area motorcycle gang steals brain fluid, and a child's comic book features rape, murder, and lethal discrimination all that much lighter, bro? Jack O'Connell
Pity viewers when the bucks are no longer supplying the bang, because all that will be left are the world's whiniest EMTs, a mixed group whose jobs have them (pause to take in the title) traumatized. Escape head trauma by avoiding NBC's 'Trauma'
Children who are traumatized by witnessing or experiencing criminal or family violence often go untreated, said Fink.
A traumatised soldier of the American Civil War deserts to get home to his fretful wife.
One would think he would've been traumatized but the dern thing decided he liked it. Cat in a Freezer for 19 Hours
During the rush on a Saturday night, he looks as if he is overseeing traumatised, scurrying troops during a bombardment.
What a cruel blow for the traumatised relatives of the victims. Times, Sunday Times
All the cash is being doled out to military causes to help the traumatised or the needy. The Sun
She was devastated and traumatised in the aftermath of the landslide.
I turn again and see two traumatized nurserymen pointing at Jack. Annie Spiegelman: Sunday Bloody Sunday (Happy Mother's Day!)
Both families held by the gang responsible were later freed unharmed, but deeply traumatised.
But, alas, the experience of shanking etches itself into the memory, and still traumatized after I had popped the ball safely out into the fairway, I yanked a midiron left a second time, into the trees. The Italian Summer
But youth leader Boubekri says Algeria has one striking characteristic that other protest-roiled Arab countries do not have; the fallout of a bloody civil war in the 1990s that killed upwards of 100,000 people and continues to traumatize Algerians. Algeria's Large Youth Population Has Few Opportunities
Don't get me wrong: I'm not overly traumatized - just occasionally regretful.
Literally thousands more have been traumatized by the direct experience of violence and by the loss of loved ones.
At the beginning of the week local animals were stampeded and traumatised and as a result one cow - a heifer, died.
I can hold my own in Rock Band but not Guitar Hero, I can traumatize the patrons of a karaoke bar, and I am much, much better at trash-talking than at actual gameplay. Telling stories «
The shock of the fall had traumatized my spine, causing temporary paralysis, and tearing my back muscles.
Those long years in the political wilderness were traumatized by discord and discontent.
So he visits and befriends the traumatised boy.
One would think that the police would be allowed not to prosecute when they lose eight out of 10 cases, but the Crown Law Office sends to court the poor devils who have already been traumatised.
For a wound to cicatrize more quickly or for tissue to regenerate after an operation, it is now proposed that stem cells be transplanted to the traumatized region.
If it is traumatised, the lining will not be as resistant as it was to infection by thrush or other usually harmless organisms. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently, we are more tolerant - our blood pressures don't go up, our hearts don't palpitate and our kids can't be traumatized.
He was taken into the care of the National Canine Defence League but the little pup was left so traumatised by the incident he could not be kept with other dogs and had to stay in a temporary foster home.
A traumatised mum whose car was involved in a head-on collision with a drunk driver today spoke of the terrible effect the crash has had on her life.
I was rather traumatized one day before Xmas eve because I had no plans for the said day.
Often too the parents are severely traumatized by the experience of detention, which reduces their ability to parent their children.
When my traumatized states could not find a hospitable relational home or context of human understanding, I became deadened, and my world became dulled. Robert D. Stolorow: Losing and Regaining My Sense of Being
Craft observed that too many ex-servicemen traumatised by their experience of war "self-diagnose and self-help, and possibly don't find the best company to do so in". War veterans' mental sufferings dramatised in ex-para's movie
The film follows these traumatised people as their paths cross after the tragedy. The Sun
Plastic Man met his death (seemingly) in the Obsidian Age, 3,000 years ago, andthis event traumatized the JLA. Hero/Villain of the Week! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
Dozens of shoppers looked on as paramedics and firefighters descended on a crashed car in Hull city centre, stabilising the traumatised driver and chopping the roof off her car.
Or she might have given Lou a detailed description of traumatized brain tissue.
She escaped serious injury but, says her mum, remains traumatised by the experience.
The fact that the subject is taboo also means that a man who is traumatized by the experience may be retraumatized again and again, with each child born to him.
They are also more relaxed and calm, which helps to stop them becoming traumatised again when they revisit painful memories. Times, Sunday Times
What a cruel blow for the traumatised relatives of the victims. Times, Sunday Times
But the doomsters predicted disaster - in particular, a sharp fall in personal consumption as shoppers, presumably traumatised by the ordeal, stopped spending.
In addition, Byrne has examined how some offenders may become traumatised by their actions.
On the other hand, the report says, the boys in the militia mostly felt guilt and shame and are traumatized by their experience.
The community of this tranquil village has been shocked and traumatised by this senseless and barbaric crime.
What a cruel blow for the traumatised relatives of the victims. Times, Sunday Times
The incumbent Kagame, 46, campaigned on a theme of national unity, while his main rival Faustin Twagiramungu, from the Hutu majority, was accused of ethnic "divisionism", a serious accusation in country still traumatised by the legacy of its genocide. ANC Daily News Briefing
Of course, men don't grow up traumatised by endless advertising campaigns pointing out long litanies of imaginary flaws. Times, Sunday Times
The Company believes that an early and successful treatment of traumatized articular cartilage may prevent or postpone the onset of long-term osteoarthritis, and consequently reduce the number of radical knee joint replacement surgeries performed each year. Medlogs - Recent stories
All 15 are eventually released, tired, bruised, battered and traumatised.
Traumatized, she threw herself into her studies to keep her mind occupied.
Often traumatized people try to restore the lost illusions shattered by trauma through some form of what I call resurrective ideology. Robert D. Stolorow: Resurrective Ideology In An Age Of Trauma
What a cruel blow for the traumatised relatives of the victims. Times, Sunday Times
It shows the national hero traumatized and self-doubting, and vanquished by forces he never quite understands.
Failing that, Jackie Chan is going to be in Kung Fu Panda with Angelina Jolie, and we don't think it's too much to ask that a new scene is included of Jackie Chan's lagered-up character screaming drunken abuse for a full 15 minutes at the traumatised young cinema audience. Badvertising: Jackie Chan’s Woolworths Ad
Prolonged bleeding is experienced after the area is traumatized.
One child was so traumatised by the experience she could not stop vomiting and had to be hospitalised.
Although Pressman says colonic irrigation is an acceptable way to relieve occasional constipation, he warns that frequent colonics can foster a dependency and traumatize or strip the lining of the large intestine.
The mountain of unsolved cases would also be largely consigned to history and give so many traumatised people the peace of mind they crave.
The cast look suitably traumatized as body after body appears via ever more imaginative death scenes.
He freely gives time for the dying wife, the injured mechanic, the traumatized telephonist.
There is also a homely, unworldly duo, Mitch and Mickey, played by Catherine O'Hara and Levy: a pair deeply traumatised by their unspoken, unconsummated love for each other.
Some play on the image of the troubled and traumatized veteran, even using it to win sympathy from a judge or jury. Heroes or Villains?
The film follows these traumatised people as their paths cross after the tragedy. The Sun
They are also more relaxed and calm, which helps to stop them becoming traumatised again when they revisit painful memories. Times, Sunday Times
Many will voice the opinion that circumcision is a cruel, barbaric procedure that can traumatize the baby.
PERT: It's the maybe the spinal cord because they were young children once and things happened to them, and people -- Freud had a concept called reenactment whereby we tend to go back and try to reenact things that sort of traumatized us a long time ago. CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2008
But she notes that a cousin of hers was traumatized by the immersion method of language instruction.
A vast array of social problems afflict a country so recently traumatized by war.
His youngest victim was nine months old and yet he talks like a mischievous elf, in stark contrast to the traumatised victims and their families. Times, Sunday Times
Troubled small businesses are discovering that banks are too traumatized by risk to extend them credit—the dearth of lending piquing small businesses. Banker Darts Around Loan Gridlock
But she'd simply traumatized her body further, and there was precious little power left in her. SACRAMENT
In May a wind sail mast smashed her in the face, leaving her traumatised and minus some teeth.
Often too the parents are severely traumatized by the experience of detention, which reduces their ability to parent their children.
He exited at an early stage and is suggesting that he did badly because he was traumatised.
Then there is a therapy service, Aftercare, to treat people who have been traumatised by their brief brush with fame.
Marshall-Stacks said ... children can be traumatised by the loss of a favourite huggy thing, and I guess the nice people know that a missing bunny is Very Significant in a life out there somewhere. Lost rabbit
My wife was traumatized by the experience.
Nice, young, caring, thin-skinned doctors might be psychologically traumatised.
His youngest victim was nine months old and yet he talks like a mischievous elf, in stark contrast to the traumatised victims and their families. Times, Sunday Times
Some of these people are feeling scared, defensive and deeply traumatised by the criticism and abuse we have been subjected to over the past two years. Times, Sunday Times
They are also traumatised and unsocialised, which can make them aggressive and anti-social. The Sun
My wife was traumatized by the experience.
Permanently traumatized by her brutal violation, Urania flees the Dominican Republic for a sterile and wearisome expatriate existence before she belatedly returns one final time to her fatherland.
Moses leading the israelites out of Egypt, Philippides running the first marathon, John Glenn blasting off to orbit the earth—none of those people could have felt as anguished, as traumatized, as terrified as I did, just taking those twenty or so steps. Claim to Fame
Miss Sharp said both victims were still deeply traumatised by the experience.
Walter's repeated nightmares also make the point about how offenders can be traumatised by their own offences.
Back at the cathouse, Melissa claims to have been ‘traumatized ‘by her kitchen term.
It's rare that a move to the countryside turns out well in British movies, and so it goes here, as a newlywed couple's fresh, rural start is gatecrashed by the husband's brother Evans, a traumatised Afghanistan war veteran. This week's new films
But, based on an emotional reaction of "what if I were raped?" they don't want to "traumatize" the mother and have her respect her unborn child's right to life. Loving the unborn child conceived in rape
The situation was not helped by the constant stream of Indian food, curry, balti, tandoori, pappadum and raitha poured down the traumatised gullet of the elderly Bostonian lady on seat 27C by the flight attendants.
By the time they got to us the girl must have been feeling traumatised, because she asked if she could borrow a teddy bear for the night.
Those who have attended my courses know my commitment and joy in putting bent bodies straight and bringing gentle touch to traumatized tissues.
One child was so traumatised by the experience she could not stop vomiting and had to be hospitalised.
Lawyers said the men had been deeply traumatised by their experiences.
If it is traumatised, the lining will not be as resistant as it was to infection by thrush or other usually harmless organisms. Times, Sunday Times
Instead they live out their days in the rescue centre, eating and sleeping in a guarded compound and acting as counsellors to other traumatised victims. Times, Sunday Times
Bellis perennis pills perform best if you've had abdominal surgery that traumatized deep tissue.
The shock of inhuman brutality was sufficient to traumatize the Albanians into submission.
They visit scenes of death and attend autopsies, take witness statements and liaise between traumatised relatives, police, solicitors and doctors.
Although still traumatized and in counselling, she is now back in Russia where she shares her experience with other women in the hope of averting the same experience for them.
For Shelley the seductiveness of the classics is arresting in both senses: they convey heightened modes and forms of passion, often before a young reader has "real" experiences of them; they traumatize by bringing to consciousness desires and experiences that have been repressed both in the subject and by literary culture. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
Most veterans are too traumatised or embarrassed to discuss their experiences.

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