traumatic
Example Sentences
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"The reports outline a very traumatic situation for those involved and nobody should ever have to experience fear or harassment for doing their job."
From BBC
There, Erikson teased out the stealthy, almost sinister peculiarities of modern man-made hazards, like radioactivity and toxicity, and their special, traumatic effects.
Hospital phobia, or nosocomephobia, is one of a number of recognised anxiety disorders commonly associated with traumatic childhood experiences.
From BBC
For Rabbi Zushe Cunin, the executive director of Chabad Palisades who led Sunday’s ceremony, the Sydney attack compounded the grief his community has felt over the last traumatic year.
From Los Angeles Times
“I had a traumatic childhood,” she says, “and we had a dysfunctional family.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
