traumas

Noun

trauma (countable and uncountable, plural traumas or traumata)

1. Any injury to the body of a living thing.
   • Near-synonyms: insult (contextually synonymous); see also Thesaurus:injury

   Synonyms:

   insult, injury, wound, scath, scathe, lesion, dere

   1. (specifically, usually) Serious injury, resulting from predation, violence, an accident such as a fall, a vehicle crash, etc.
      • We're not talking about paper cuts or sprains here — we're talking about trauma.
2. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
   • What these patients eventually realized was that they all had trauma that had fed into their addictions.
3. An event that causes great distress.
   • The earthquake here 14 years ago was a national trauma that still affects the economy today.