Traumatising

Word TRAUMATISING
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Definitions and meanings of "Traumatising"

What do we mean by traumatising?

To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.

To cause a trauma in.

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The word "traumatising" in example sentences

She said she was then held at a local school precinct for hours in what she calls a traumatising and excessive ordeal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Much has been written recently about 'cotton wool kids' both in Europe and in the US where some schools insist that teachers do corrections in lavender ink because red marks are too 'traumatising' for children. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Touching on recent spates of xenophobia in the country, Dawlo described the events, especially in Alexandra were "traumatising". ❋ Unknown (2008)

"It would have been kind of traumatising to get a dead puppy." ❋ Unknown (2011)

A Brisbane mother who physically abused her toddler son continued to inflict "traumatising" pain on him when he was in hospital, a court has been told. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When I first came to experience an actual office Christmas party, I found the peacock process of competing with female cohorts to don the shiniest, shortest and most phwoar-inducing dress slightly traumatising. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In Holland, the subject of one of her most satisfying chapters, she marvels at a cycling landscape that could have been reclaimed from the sea with the bicycle in mind, and discovers that, far from taking to two wheels like ducks to water, doughty Dutch velocipedists of the mid-19th century were bombarded with stones and coal by locals who accused them of traumatising the livestock. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Lib Dems were left to take nearly all of the heat for hated policies, tuition fees being the most traumatising example. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Alcides Ghiggia had cut in from the wing in the 79th minute and fired a close-range shot past the Brazilian goalkeeper, traumatising the crowd of around 200,000 in Rio de Janeiro's brand new stadium. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It would have been fascinating to know why Christine O'Donnell truly believed masturbation to be "sinful": did she have a sexually traumatising childhood experience akin to Liz Lemon's on 30 Rock, whose mother once caught her writing with her knickers down beneath a poster of Tom Jones? ❋ Hadley Freeman (2010)

The season of slaughter continued throughout the 1980s with the highly controversial horror entries Christmas Evil, Don't Open Till Christmas and the Silent Night, Deadly Night series, which suggested the traumatising possibilities the myth of Santa could have on children later in life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had coffee and lunch and dinner with lots of people but not breakfast because my hotel had a pancake machine and I was not passing that up for any sort of society but most of our time we spent in and around the bar, traumatising the bar staff and drinking far too much English Breakfast Tea. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Courts routinely see video evidence in what's called ABE Achieving Best Evidence interviews, designed to get what evidence is available without traumatising the witness, but asking a four year-old to recount what happened when she was two is a dramatic move onto new ground. ❋ Bystander (2009)

I think what confirmed it for me was when Katie Holmes was due to have her baby and was not allowed to make noise during the birth to avoid traumatising the infant. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the contrary, there are some problems, unforgiven crossings, and traumatising events that have been passed down through generations along with the good. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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