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trau·ma
(trô′mə, trou′-)n. pl. trau·mas or trau·ma·ta (-mə-tə)
1.
a. Serious injury to the body, as from physical violence or an accident: abdominal trauma.
b. Severe emotional or mental distress caused by an experience: He experienced trauma for years after his divorce.
2.
a. An experience that causes severe anxiety or emotional distress, such as rape or combat: memories that persist after a trauma occurs.
b. An event or situation that causes great disruption or suffering: the economic trauma of the recession.
[Greek; see terə- in Indo-European roots.]
trau·mat′ic (-măt′ĭk) adj.
trau·mat′i·cal·ly adv.
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| Adj. | 1. |  traumatic - of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body |
| 2. | traumatic - psychologically painful;"few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"; painful - causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness" |
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traumatic
adjective shocking, upsetting, alarming, awful, disturbing, devastating, painful, distressing, terrifying, scarring, harrowing
shocking relaxing, calming, therapeutic
shocking relaxing, calming, therapeutic
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Translations
traumatický
traumatisk
traumaattinen
traumatičan
外傷性の
충격적인
traumatisk
ซึ่งบอบช้ำทางจิตใจ
đau đớn
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
traumatic
[trɔːˈmætɪk] adj [incident, experience] → traumatisant(e)It was a traumatic experience → Cela a été une expérience traumatisante.
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
traumatic
adj → traumatisch; it is traumatic to lose one’s job → seine Arbeit zu verlieren ist eine traumatische Erfahrung
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traumatic
→ جَرْحِيّ traumatický traumatisk traumatisch τραυματικός traumático traumaattinen traumatisant traumatičan traumatico 外傷性の 충격적인 traumatisch traumatisk traumatyczny traumático травматический traumatisk ซึ่งบอบช้ำทางจิตใจ travmatik đau đớn 创伤的Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
trau·mat·ic
a. traumático-a, rel. a un trauma.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
traumatic
adj traumáticoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.