v. (pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
v. (psychiatry) To cause a trauma in; as, to be traumatised by a childhood experience.
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v. inflict a trauma upon
Word Usage
"That could traumatise a few younger viewers but being just about the only other women in the movie apart from Cruz, it also suggests something more worrying beneath the light-hearted mateyness."