in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 traumatise
- VERB 使受精神创伤;使惊吓过度;使痛苦
If someone is traumatized by an event or situation, it shocks or upsets them very much, and may cause them psychological damage.
- My wife was traumatized by the experience...
那次经历给我我妻子造成了精神创伤。 - Did his parents traumatize him?...
他父母给他留下了心理伤害吗? - Traumatising a child with an abnormal fear of strangers probably won't do much good.
给小孩造成心理阴影,让他对陌生人产生异常的恐惧,这可能不会有什么好处。 - ...young children traumatised by their parents' deaths.
因父母死亡而受到精神创伤的儿童