traumatized

adjective

trau·​ma·​tized ˈtrȯ-mə-ˌtīzd 

 also  ˈtrau̇-

: affected by physical or emotional trauma

He has always admitted responsibility for the crash, on the Autobahn between Berlin and Leipzig, which … left him temporarily paralyzed and traumatized.

—John Rockwell

Patients are less traumatized, require shorter hospital stays, and heal faster than with conventional surgery. Yet despite the benefits, laparoscopy is a challenging procedure.

—Kathy A. Svitil

Two traumatized plane-crash survivors, played by Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez, teach each other how to live again.

—Peter Travers

… the many barriers leading to his conviction: for one, victims too traumatized to press charges.

—Eloise Kinney

Examples of traumatized in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Typically, a traumatized woman seeking violent revenge is made to back off from the abyss at the last minute, reasserting her superior humanity by refusing to sink to her victimizer’s level. —Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025

Lisa Cotton, 38, and her 8-year-old autistic son died mysteriously in their Wakefield home, leaving Cotton’s traumatized daughter alone in the apartment with the two corpses for days, police said Saturday. —Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025

Audiences also see Dorrigo later in life as a traumatized yet well respected surgeon and war hero. —Katie Campione, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2025

Fey’s next big project, the Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, wrung humor out of an abused, traumatized kidnapping victim’s adventures in a cruel city plagued by economic inequality. —Judy Berman, Time, 1 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for traumatized

• acclimatized
• actualized
• aerosolized
• alphabetized
• aluminized
• anaesthetized
• anesthetized
• annualized
• antagonized
• apologised
• apologized
• capitalised