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traumatise

traumatise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of traumatize.

Meaning of traumatize

Verb

traumatize (third-person singular simple present traumatizes, present participle traumatizing, simple past and past participle traumatized)

  1. (transitive) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
  2. (transitive) To cause a trauma in.
    • I was traumatized by a childhood experience.

Forms of traumatise

third-person singular presenttraumatises
present participletraumatising
past participletraumatised
pasttraumatised
alternative formtraumatize

Origin of traumatise

From French traumatiser.

Words formed from traumatise

Questions about traumatise

What is traumatise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Traumatise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of traumatize.

Words near traumatise in the dictionary

  1. traumaticine
  2. traumaticity
  3. traumatics
  4. traumatisation
  5. traumatisations
  6. traumatise
  7. traumatised
  8. traumatiser
  9. traumatisers
  10. traumatises
  11. traumatising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: traumatise (page history and authors); traumatize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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