trauma
Any injury to the body of a living thing.
Other meanings
Serious injury, resulting from predation, violence, an accident such as a fall, a vehicle crash, etc.
An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
“What these patients eventually realized was that they all had trauma that had fed into their addictions.”
Synonyms
- harm
Related words
- traumascum
- phonotrauma
- trauma-informed
- trauma dump
- trauma dumping
- traumaless
- traumatic
- traumatism
- atelectrauma
- barotrauma
- biotrauma
- dialytrauma
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "τραῦμα" (wound, damage).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “trauma” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.