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- verb Present participle of
traumatise .
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Examples
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She said she was then held at a local school precinct for hours in what she calls a traumatising and excessive ordeal.
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She said she was then held at a local school precinct for hours in what she calls a traumatising and excessive ordeal.
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She said she was then held at a local school precinct for hours in what she calls a traumatising and excessive ordeal.
BBC - Ouch 2010
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She said she was then held at a local school precinct for hours in what she calls a traumatising and excessive ordeal.
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She said she was then held at a local school precinct for hours in what she calls a traumatising and excessive ordeal.
BBC - Ouch 2010
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Much has been written recently about 'cotton wool kids' both in Europe and in the US where some schools insist that teachers do corrections in lavender ink because red marks are too 'traumatising' for children.
Alan Miller: Are Risk-Obsessed Adults Paving The Way For Stifled Kids? 2008
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Touching on recent spates of xenophobia in the country, Dawlo described the events, especially in Alexandra were "traumatising".
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"It would have been kind of traumatising to get a dead puppy."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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A Brisbane mother who physically abused her toddler son continued to inflict "traumatising" pain on him when he was in hospital, a court has been told.
National Nine News 2010
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When I first came to experience an actual office Christmas party, I found the peacock process of competing with female cohorts to don the shiniest, shortest and most phwoar-inducing dress slightly traumatising.
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