Trauma

Quick meaning: Trauma is a noun meaning Any injury to the body of a living thing.

Meaning

Any injury to the body of a living thing.

More Meanings

1. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
2. An event that causes great distress.

Example Sentences

major trauma

Near-synonyms: insult (contextually synonymous); see also Thesaurus:injury

The earthquake here 14 years ago was a national trauma that still affects the economy today.

What these patients eventually realized was that they all had trauma that had fed into their addictions.

Word Forms

• traumas
• traumata

Synonyms for trauma

Depending on context, synonyms include insult, injury, wound, scath, scathe, lesion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include injury, hurt, harm, wounded, damage, pain.

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