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Meaning traumatic meaning
What does traumatic mean?
Definitions in simple English
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Synonyms traumatic synonyms
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Topics traumatic topics
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Examples traumatic examples
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Simple sentences
For many years, Tom has been constantly complaining about his traumatic childhood, but there are many people who were similarly abused in their childhood who did not end up like Tom.
Tom suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and is plagued by nightmares.
I have post-traumatic stress disorder.
It was a traumatic experience.
The capture of baby elephants is horribly cruel and traumatic to both the mothers, their calves and the herds that are left behind.
Sure, it might be traumatic, but so what?
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It's a non-traumatic stupor.
Some dreadful, traumatic experience of some kind.
I hope this won't be a traumatic experience for you.
Whether these alien ideas spring from the subject's own mind as in auto-suggestion following a traumatic experience or by hetero-suggestion as in hypnosis or by the Devil himself, as our forefathers thought is relatively unimportant.
The traumatic incident could be before the awakening of the sexual impulse.
I had a traumatic experience driving in the rain the other day.
It was a traumatic experience, I can tell you, being the illegitimate daughter of Mata Hari and James Bond.
And you insist that their behaviour is a sign of traumatic shock?
Traumatic hypnosis is a weapon of peace.
You've been through a traumatic experience.
Something traumatic enough to make both of them want to kill you.
The whole subject of divorce is traumatic for me.
A sudden noise frightened her so much that it caused a traumatic shock.
It was caused by a traumatic shock. that's all.
It might be, how would you say, traumatic.
Captain, I've had a rather traumatic little experience which you may be able to clarify for me.
You know, he's suffering from some severe traumatic shock.
You know, very often after a traumatic experience such as a leopard attack an animal will fall into a deep sleep.
It was a traumatic experience, I can tell you. It's no joke being the illegitimate daughter of Mata Hari and James Bond.
Regrettably, we have discovered traumatic shock to the spinal column resulting in massive nerve dysfunction.
It had a traumatic effect. He went berserk.
As if that woman was part of a reality that his mind distorted, a traumatic experience that he's trying to forget now.
You have been through a series of traumatic shocks.
In this family, descent is traumatic.
Traumatic amnesia.
I have helped policemen through very traumatic moments.
Especially if they've suffered a traumatic shock.
I know it was a traumatic event for Clara.
And thanks to the lies and deceits surrounding that war, I guess it's no surprise that the very same condition was called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Do you have any idea how traumatic that would be?
I just had a very traumatic experience.
It was very traumatic for me.
But repressed memories of traumatic events are usually accurate.
What I said was repressed memories of traumatic events are accurate, especially when remembering brings on a new trauma.
Regressive traumatic recall.
It's a traumatic thing to be thrown up on.
News and current affairs
But, while this scenario has a certain ring of truth, surely any breakup would be highly traumatic, with the euro diving before its rump form recovered.
There is, moreover, little evidence that a deep involuntary restructuring would be any more traumatic than a deep voluntary restructuring.
This worked in postwar Germany, but then traumatic memories of the Nazis and the relative weakness of antidemocratic movements helped.
Both solutions are extremely traumatic.
It is reasonable to suppose that the sudden separation was traumatic for Tilly.
Sometimes, strong recoveries follow recessions, but recovery following financial crises is always immensely painful, time-consuming, and traumatic.
Such changes can be traumatic, and markets often do not handle them well.
Of course, the process would be traumatic - and not just for Greece.
September 11 was a traumatic event that shook the nation to its core.
Even if it is successful, consumers, investors, and businesses are undergoing a traumatic experience whose full impact is yet to be felt.
But real life is also traumatic and limited.
The reality is that defense debates within Japan are invariably traumatic, based on sharp memories of the war and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
These debates are also traumatic for an institutional reason.
It is no longer a traumatic experience, just a bureaucratic hassle.
If you are not subjecting your daughter to traumatic genital injury at three and marrying her off at ten, she can go to school.
The looming Afghan withdrawal recalls, at least for some Asians, a third, even more traumatic event: America's chaotic exit from Saigon in April 1975.
In the case of Argentina, a pair of massive IMF loans in 2000 and 2001 ultimately only delayed the inevitable harsh adjustment, and made the country's ultimate default even more traumatic.
This would allow Chile to address its traumatic past.
September 11 was a traumatic event that shook the nation to its core. But it would not have changed the course of history for the worse if President Bush had not responded as he did.
The crisis of the Jewish conscience in the traumatic transition from Holocaust to statehood has not yet been fully overcome.
Without personal experience of China's recent traumatic history, the next generation will be more confident and assertive.
Floating rates worked for the Big Three currencies, forestalling traumatic crises for other currencies too.