trauma

noun

1. 1

   Any injury to the body of a living thing.

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

   mild trauma

   major trauma

2. 2

   Any injury to the body of a living thing. Serious injury, resulting from predation, violence, an accident such as a fall, a vehicle crash, etc.

   We're not talking about paper cuts or sprains here — we're talking about trauma.

   Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

3. 3

   An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.

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

   Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.

   And although it doesn’t mean acting like an infant again, it does require recognizing that many of the thoughts and behaviors you’d like to change come from lingering feelings of childhood traumas or your inner child, said Dr. Avigail Lev, a licensed clinical psychologist at the Bay Area CBT Center in San Francisco.

4. 4

   An event that causes great distress.

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

Forms

plural

traumas, traumata