Another Word For TRAUMATIZE

shock

Verb : (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.

Verb : (transitive) To give an electric shock to.

Verb : (transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.

terrify

Verb : To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.

Verb : To menace or intimidate.

Verb : (obsolete) To make terrible.

terrorize

Verb : To fill (someone) with terror; to terrify.

Verb : To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence.

frighten

Verb : (transitive) To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.

Verb : (intransitive) To become scared or alarmed.

desensitize

Verb : To cause to become less sensitive or insensitive.

demoralize

Verb : To destroy the morale of; to dishearten.

Verb : (dated) To erode the moral adherence of; to corrupt.

victimize

Verb : To make someone a victim or sacrifice.

Verb : To punish someone unjustly.

Verb : To swindle or defraud someone.

brutalize

Verb : Alternative spelling of brutalise [(transitive) To inflict brutal violence on.]

maim

Noun : (obsolete) A severe, serious wound.

horrify

Verb : To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.

humiliate

Verb : (transitive) To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.

Verb : (transitive) To make humble; to lower in condition or status.

Verb : (transitive, sports, games) To defeat overwhelmingly.

injure

Verb : (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.

Verb : (transitive) To damage or impair.

Verb : (transitive) To do injustice to.

disturb

Verb : (transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.

Verb : (transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.

Verb : (intransitive) to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.

scaring

Verb : (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.

Verb : (intransitive) To form a scar.

Verb : (transitive, figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.

debilitate

Verb : (transitive) To make feeble; to weaken.

scare

Noun : A minor fright.

Noun : A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.

Noun : A device or object used to frighten.

embarrass

Verb : (transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.

Verb : (transitive) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.

Verb : (transitive) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.

hurt

Noun : An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.

Noun : (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.

Noun : (archaic) Injury; damage; detriment; harm

unnerve

Verb : To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. Compare enervate.

Verb : To make somebody nervous, upset, alarm, shake the resolve of.

devastate

Verb : To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.

Verb : To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.

Verb : To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.

incapacitate

Verb : To make someone or something incapable of doing something; to disable.

Verb : (law enforcement) To imprison a potential offender and thereby prevent them from offending.

Verb : (law) To make someone ineligible; to disqualify.

paralyze

Verb : (transitive) To afflict with paralysis.

Verb : (transitive) To render unable to move; to immobilize.

Verb : (transitive) To render unable to function properly.

intimidate

Verb : (transitive) To make timid or afraid; to cause to feel fear or nervousness; to deter, especially by threats of violence.

offend

Verb : (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.

Verb : (intransitive) To feel or become offended; to take insult.

Verb : (transitive) To physically harm, pain.

antagonize

Verb : (transitive) To work against; to oppose (especially to incite a reaction).

irritate

Verb : (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.

Verb : (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.

Verb : (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).

alienate

Verb : To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

Verb : To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.

Verb : To cause one to feel unable to relate.

kill

Verb : (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.

Verb : (transitive) To render inoperative.

Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.

dehumanize

Verb : (transitive) To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.

threaten

Verb : To make a threat against someone; to use threats.

Verb : To menace, or be dangerous.

Verb : To portend, or give a warning of.

mutilate

Verb : To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.

Verb : To destroy beyond recognition.

Verb : (figuratively) To render imperfect or defective.

disrupt

Verb : (transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.

Verb : (transitive) To interrupt or impede.

Verb : (transitive) To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.

provoke

Verb : (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.

Verb : (transitive) To bring about a reaction.

Verb : (obsolete) To appeal.

destabilize

Verb : (transitive) To make something unstable.

Verb : (intransitive) To become unstable.

scandalize

Verb : (transitive) To cause great offense to (someone).

Verb : (transitive) To reproach.

Verb : (transitive) To disgrace.

overstimulate

Verb : (transitive) To stimulate to an excessive degree; to expose to excessive stimulation.

molest

Verb : To sexually assault or sexually harass.

Verb : To annoy, trouble, or afflict.

Verb : (obsolete) To disturb or tamper with.

disfigure

Verb : to irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it.

immobilize

Verb : To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.

Verb : To render incapable of action.

Verb : To modify a surface such that things will not stick to it

aggravate

Verb : To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.

Verb : (by extension) To make (any bad thing) worse.

Verb : (now rare) To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.

annoy

Verb : (transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

Verb : (intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To molest; to harm; to injure.

petrify

Verb : (transitive) To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.

Verb : To produce rigidity akin to stone.

Verb : To immobilize with fright.

infantilize

Verb : (transitive) To reduce (a person) to the state or status of an infant.

Verb : (transitive) To treat (a person) like a child.

traumatic

Adjective : Of, caused by, or causing trauma.

Adjective : (medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.

Adjective : (dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.

infuriate

Adjective : (now rare) Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury.

brutalise

Verb : (transitive) To inflict brutal violence on.

Verb : (transitive) To make brutal, cruel or harsh.

Verb : (intransitive, dated) To live or behave like a brute.

deprive

Verb : (transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.

Verb : (transitive) To degrade (a clergyman) from office.

Verb : (transitive) To bereave.

punish

Verb : (transitive) To cause (a child, student, or someone else being looked after, or a suspect or criminal) to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent, teacher, or police officer).

Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To treat harshly and unfairly.

Verb : (transitive, colloquial) To handle or beat severely; to maul.

subjugate

Verb : (transitive) To forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon.

decapitate

Verb : (transitive, literal) To remove the head of.

Verb : (transitive, figurative) To oust or destroy the leadership or ruling body of (a government etc.).

harm

Noun : Physical injury; hurt; damage.

Noun : Emotional or figurative hurt.

Noun : Detriment; misfortune.

desensitise

Verb : Alternative spelling of desensitize [To cause to become less sensitive or insensitive.]

startle

Noun : A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.

harass

Verb : To annoy (someone) frequently or systematically; to pester.

Verb : (specifically) To persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period.

Verb : To put excessive burdens upon (someone); to subject (someone) to anxieties.

maiming

Noun : The act by which somebody is maimed.

stigmatize

Verb : (transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.

annihilate

Verb : To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.

Verb : (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).

Verb : (archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.

disorient

Verb : To cause to lose orientation or direction.

Verb : To confuse or befuddle.

kidnap

Noun : The crime, or an instance, of kidnapping.

impoverish

Verb : (transitive) To make poor.

Verb : (transitive) To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness.

Verb : (intransitive) To become poor.

discourage

Verb : (transitive) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.

Verb : (transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).

traumatised

induce

Verb : (transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.

Verb : (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.

Verb : (transitive) To induce the labour of (a pregnant woman).

destroy

Verb : (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.

Verb : (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.

Verb : (transitive) To put down or euthanize.

retraumatization

Noun : (psychology) A relapse into a state of trauma, triggered by a subsequent event.

eviscerate

Verb : (transitive) To disembowel; to remove the viscera.

Verb : (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.

Verb : (transitive) To elicit the essence of.

enrage

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To become angry or wild. [16th–18th c.]

Verb : (transitive) To fill with rage; to outrage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To provoke to madness, to make insane.

abduct

Verb : (transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.

Verb : (transitive, anatomy) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body.

jeopardize

Verb : (US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.

brainwash

Verb : (psychology) To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)

Verb : (figuratively, dated) To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)

Verb : To persuade completely and forcibly.

electrocute

Verb : (transitive) To kill by electric shock.

Verb : (transitive) To execute by electric shock, often by means of an electric chair.

Verb : (transitive, proscribed, informal) To inflict a severe electric shock (not necessarily fatal) upon.

incite

Verb : (transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

titillate

Verb : To stimulate or excite sensually.

harmed

Adjective : having had pain or loss or suffering inflicte

brutalization

Noun : (uncountable) The act or process of making brutal

Noun : An instance of being brutalized.

terrorizing

Verb : To fill (someone) with terror; to terrify.

Verb : To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence.

dissuade

Verb : (transitive) To convince not to try or do.

reeducate

Verb : (transitive) To educate or teach again, especially in order to remove bad practices.

Verb : (transitive) To rehabilitate.

ostracize

Verb : (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.

Verb : (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.

disenfranchise

Verb : (transitive) To deprive someone of a franchise, generally of the right to vote.

terrorise

Verb : To inflict someone with terror; to terrify.

Verb : To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence.

radicalize

Verb : (transitive) To make radical.

Verb : (intransitive) To become radical; to adopt a radical political stance.

restimulate

Verb : To stimulate again.

Verb : (Scientology) To "awaken" a previously lost or hidden memory (engram) from the past, in (a person).

inflict

Verb : To thrust upon; to impose.

sicken

Verb : (transitive) To make ill.

Verb : (intransitive) To become ill.

Verb : (transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.

harming

Verb : To damage, hurt, or injure something, usually an inanimate object.

brutalizing

Adjective : Cruel, harsh, or otherwise insensitive.

stimulate

Verb : To encourage into action.

Verb : To arouse an organism to functional activity.

mutilating

Verb : To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.

Verb : To destroy beyond recognition.

Verb : (figuratively) To render imperfect or defective.

anesthetize

Verb : (transitive) To administer anesthesia to: to render unfeeling or unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs.

traumatically

Verb : In a traumatic manner.

affect

Verb : (transitive) To influence or alter.

Verb : (transitive) To move to emotion.

Verb : (transitive, pathology) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).

demoralise

Verb : Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demoralize. [To destroy the morale of; to dishearten.]

amuse

Verb : (transitive) To entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (someone) with pleasing emotions.

Verb : To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.

obliterate

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.

Verb : To hide (something) by covering it; to conceal, to obscure.

traumatisation

Noun : Alternative spelling of traumatization [(psychology) The infliction of trauma; the act or process of traumatizing.]

dismember

Verb : (transitive) To remove the limbs of.

Verb : (transitive) To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.

sensitize

Verb : To make (someone or something) sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli.

Verb : To make (someone) increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way.

Verb : (transitive) To render capable of being acted on by actinic rays of light.

hypnotize

Verb : (transitive) To induce a state of hypnosis in.

terrorized

Verb : To fill (someone) with terror; to terrify.

Verb : To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence.

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