TRAUMA

trauma, psychic trauma

(noun) an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects

injury, hurt, harm, trauma

(noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

trauma (countable and uncountable, plural traumas or traumata)

Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.

An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.

An event that causes great distress.

Anagrams

• Murata, Tamura, matura

Source: Wiktionary



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