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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
traumatize .
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Examples
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Of all the monumental questions that relate to 9/11 none is so strong as how an omnipotent, all-powerful G-d watched in silence as 3000 men and women -- whose only crime was to rise early in the morning to feed their families -- perished in a grizzly tragedy that traumatizes America till this day.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Was G-d at Ground Zero? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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If a great public event happens, we must care about it only insofar as it traumatizes the ever-fragile poetic self--the contemporary minor poets who have written for Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets 2002, seem to have learned this lesson well.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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That does not look like a traumatized dog, it looks like she traumatizes people.
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I don't think it horribly traumatizes kids older than 6, but it probably does confuse them.
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If a great public event happens, we must care about it only insofar as it traumatizes the ever-fragile poetic self--the contemporary minor poets who have written for Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets 2002, seem to have learned this lesson well.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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Of all the monumental questions that relate to 9/11 none is so strong as how an omnipotent, all-powerful G-d watched in silence as 3000 men and women -- whose only crime was to rise early in the morning to feed their families -- perished in a grizzly tragedy that traumatizes America till this day.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Was G-d at Ground Zero? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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If instilled early, these skills also help them to avoid the college-prep freak-out that traumatizes so many American families.
Tiger Mom's Long-Distance Cub Amy Chua 2011
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"This mindlessly bureaucratic policy unnecessarily traumatizes refugees and their families, not to mention wasting the government's resources."
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"This mindlessly bureaucratic policy unnecessarily traumatizes refugees and their families, not to mention wasting the government's resources."
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It is horror, it is blood, it multiplies by mass media — it traumatizes even those who were not injured.
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