traumatic
Example Sentences
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“I just felt like all the just traumatic moments of my life really just started flooding my head,” he said.
He speculated that scholars and Americans in general were too disheartened by Vietnam to want to contemplate a traumatic rupture like the Civil War.
Still the journey to today's acceptance has been deeply traumatic.
From BBC
In a victim impact statement read out by the court, Kasia said the impact of her mother's disappearance had been traumatic throughout her life.
From BBC
Whatever its actual length, there is no doubting the war’s traumatic impact upon France, where swaths of countryside were depopulated for decades, or the grievous toll upon combatants and civilians alike.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
