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traumatizing

traumatizing is the present participle and gerund 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 traumatizing

comparativemore traumatizing
superlativemost traumatizing

Words formed from traumatizing

Questions about traumatizing

What is traumatizing the present participle and gerund of?
Traumatizing is the present participle and gerund of traumatize.

Words near traumatizing in the dictionary

  1. traumatize
  2. traumatized
  3. traumatizer
  4. traumatizers
  5. traumatizes
  6. traumatizing
  7. traumatizingly
  8. traumatogenesis
  9. traumatogenic
  10. traumatol
  11. traumatological

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