trauma

Plural

traumas

1. 1.Any injury to the body of a living thing.

   • 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.

2. 2.An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.

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

3. 3.An event that causes great distress.

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

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Synonyms

• harm
• injury