traumatize
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- v inflict a trauma upon
- Such things, according to the Motion Picture Association of America, traumatize young minds.
- Stockman's narrative about Reagan and his aides is at times so unintelligible (the President, he writes, "had no concrete program to dislocate and traumatize the here-and-now of .
- What does traumatize Americans is the thought of economic stagnation as a permanent condition.