traumatic

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Post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers will work with a therapist to recall the traumatic event in a safe situation to alleviate the fear it produces.

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  1. Of or pertaining to wounds: as, traumatic inflammation.
  2. Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary: as, traumatic balsam.
  3. Produced by wounds: as, traumatic tetanus.
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  • The search was painful and traumatic, and Meg wished she'd met Tom a long time ago. —  PROLOGUE
  • The perception has been the conquest was so traumatic--between the deaths from disease reaching 90 percent among Native Americans and the violent suppression of the people--that their world view could not have survived. —  Omni: February 1995
  • What made it extra traumatic is that the first set didn't fit and my mother —  WordPress.com News
  • If traumatic, anyone can carry / load the Totes into one of several available —  SurvivalBlog.com
  • The Hog Trough Too had been recast as a 90s diner - the Cat & Griddle - and old ADM hands could recall the traumatic events 15 years earlier that put the company at the heart of what was then the US's biggest price-fixing scandal. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
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  1. =F. traumatique, from Greek τραυματικός, from τραῦμα(τ-), wound (see trauma), + -ic.
 

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