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  • verb Present participle of traumatize.

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Examples

  • Emergency workers from across Nebraska recalled traumatizing accident scenes when asking for a new level of workers 'compensation coverage.

    WOWT - HomePage - Headlines 2010

  • At Thursday's hearing, Anna Nicole Sideris testified that Mr. Ghailani told her that the search "eats his soul" and is "traumatizing" to him.

    Former Guantanamo Detainee Ghailani Doesn't Want to Undergo Searches 2010

  • Planned Parenthood and their allies accuse these centers of posing as medical clinics, offering religion instead of science, and of "traumatizing" pregnant women by showing them things like sonograms.

    The NAACP and Black Abortions 2008

  • Asked to specify the "damage or injury" that resulted from the experience he calls "traumatizing," Rogers says, "I have had to seek counseling to deal with past problems stemming from pornography."

    Sex In Sacramento 2008

  • Lafferty said the hiring of a transgender teacher in a school, for example, would be "traumatizing" for students who are "still growing and learning about sexuality."

    FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010

  • Monica Zamiska, 25, said it was "traumatizing" when she was laid off in January from her first postcollege job as a junior account executive with the public relations firm Ogilvy

    news | WM | http://www.starnewsonline.com 2009

  • Monica Zamiska, 25, said it was "traumatizing" when she was laid off in January from her first postcollege job as a junior account executive with the public relations firm Ogilvy

    news | WM | http://www.starnewsonline.com 2009

  • Significantly, such a review would come at a time when Shambaugh - one of the most-respected China scholars in Washington - said that the Sino-US relationship appeared to be the best it has been in the 20 years since the "traumatizing" Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989.

    Taipei Times 2009

  • A federal appeals court found the search "traumatizing" and illegal.

    Aftermath News 2009

  • Monica Zamiska, 25, said it was "traumatizing" when she was laid off in January from her first postcollege job as a junior account executive with Ogilvy & Mather, the advertising and public relations company.

    BLACK ENTERPRISE 2009

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