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   trauma

   /ˈtrɔːmə/

   noun

   • 1. a deeply distressing or disturbing experience: "a personal trauma like the death of a child"
   • ▪ emotional shock following a stressful event or a physical injury, which may lead to long-term neurosis: "the event is relived with all the accompanying trauma" Similar shockupheavaldistressstressstrainpainanguishsufferingupsetagonymiserysorrowgriefheartacheheartbreaktorturedisturbancedisorderjoltordealtrialtribulationtroubleworryanxietyburdenadversityhardshipnightmare
   • 2. physical injury: "rupture of the diaphragm caused by blunt trauma" Similar injurydamagehurtwoundwoundingsorebruisecutlacerationlesionabrasioncontusionOpposite healing

   Word Origin late 17th century: from Greek, literally ‘wound’.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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