Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A serious injury or shock to the body, as from violence or an accident.
- n. An emotional wound or shock that creates substantial, lasting damage to the psychological development of a person, often leading to neurosis.
- n. An event or situation that causes great distress and disruption.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An abnormal condition of the living body produced by external violence, as distinguished from that produced by poisons, zymotic infection, bad habits, and other less evident causes; traumatism; an accidental wound, as distinguished from one caused by the surgeon's knife in an operation.
- n. External violence producing bodily injury; the act of wounding, or infliction of a wound.
Wiktionary
- n. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
- n. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
- n. An event that causes great distress.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects
- n. any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (trauma, "wound, damage"). (Wiktionary)
- Greek; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“; w; * trauma, trauma* mi casita se puso a saltar la cuerda! pero luego me di cuenta que no era solo mi casita it was todo el Peru que creo que le gusto demasiado Jump it * 0*”
“As Danielle Gardner, whose brother Douglas Gardner worked at Cantor Fitzgerald and died in the World Trade Center, wrote in a remarkable essay published in 2005, I have learned about the whacked-out phenomenon I term trauma envy.”
“Summer is what we call trauma season," says Matthew Denenberg, division chief for pediatrics at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich.”
The Wall Street Journal: Summertime Fun in the Sun, and Other Perils
“As Carlson notes, this trauma is the work of literature itself: For [Shelley], the value of creative writing is in 'preparing' readers for the inability to be prepared.”
“From the point of view of the subject, this trauma is a hole, a tear in the symbolic tissue.”
“Petrov walked into the court-room on crutches due to what he called a trauma from the time of the assassination attempt against him in 2002.”
“Aleksei Petrov, one of the most striking and mysterious figures from Bulgaria's 20-year transition, walked into the court-room on crutches due to what he called a trauma from a 2002 assassination attempt.”
“How does what you call the trauma myth hurt people who were actual victims of sexual assault?”
“The difference between him and Spider-Man is that his mission isn't based as much in "trauma" as in his very identity.”
[GUEST POST] Gabriel McKee on Mark Millar's Kick-Ass...and Why it Stinks
“I agree, if "trauma" is all you (and Dawkins) are worried about.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trauma’.
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Psychology
stockholm syndrome, stereotype, ergonomics, human-computer in..., prejudice, neo-luddism, stress, trauma, psychopathology, psychotic, neurosis, depression and 180 more...
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AGRI - horse breeding
driving, implement, Trot, speed, exhale, dope, obstacle, tail, plow, coloration, para, weaving and 678 more...
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discontinued analog cyborg subroutines
my first list
analogue, analog, cyborg, adaptation, survival, accessibility, analog cyborg, brain, brain damage, trauma, traumatic brain i..., tbi and 15 more...
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catalysts
catalysts leading to action.
aka the inciting incident, point of attack there's no major rules here, broad umbrella terms or specific works for now.
( randomness, writing )trauma, death, tragedy, embarrassment, epiphany, move, literature, brink, poll numbers, innovation, injustice, another headspace and 44 more...
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revelation
synonyms of revelation or even catalysts leading revelation (moments of clarity).. whatever they may be (preferably nouns)
also experiences that are possible paths to enlightenment (v...rebirth, awakening, catharsis, revival, renewal, dawning, spring, reunion, recollect, exodus, epiphany, prophecy and 77 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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vocabs
to learn
fond, fuss, unhinged, syndication, mayhem, invoke, nostalgia, bizarre, blatantly, condemn, comrade, captivity and 89 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2014 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Greek Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lethargy, biopsy, enthusiasm, odyssey, synonym, calypso, character, eclectic, chronology, cosmetic, cynical, hypothesis and 128 more...
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Turning and Twisting Tours
words in the nature of double spirals
swift, swerve, swirl, swivel, swarm, swag, swank, swoop, swinge, swarf, spire, esparto and 361 more...
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Morbidity
sickness (preferably of the brain)
morbidity, disease, malady, ailment, oneirophrenia, hysteria, dissociation, depersonalization, schizoaffective, neuropsychiatry, chronic, obsessive and 86 more...
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flyrobynfly's Words
timer, word, curator, limited, what, love, torture, speed, compassion, terror, romance, seed and 55 more...
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injury
"Mom! Mom! I have an excoriation with minor ecchymosis!"
excoriation, extravasation, ecchymosis, lesion, avulsion, laceration, abrasion, contusion, incision, haematoma, rupture, haemorrhage and 3 more...
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Immigration
Words that we will encounter during our study of immigration!
immigration, emigrate, immigrant, emigrant, migrate, tennement, steerage, decade, detainee, ward, indentured, literacy and 41 more...
Tweets
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