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Another word for trauma

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Noun

  1. Marked tissue damage, especially when produced by physical injury

    See also:

    help

  2. Something that jars the mind or emotions

    See also:

    strike

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Another word for trauma

Noun
  1. See also:

    injury

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Martha is a trauma nurse in a large Boston hospital.

  • She didn't exactly feel grateful to him, though, not with the emotional trauma he put her through.

  • She made one anyway and forced herself to eat it, blaming her recent trauma for her queasiness.

  • Howie doesn't have to work but he still suffers from head trauma, is pretty depressed and frankly, doesn't know what to do with himself.

  • Your amnesia is trauma induced from the rape you survived six years ago.

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