trauma

Meaning of trauma

noun
  1. a deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
    a personal trauma like the death of a child
    many experience the trauma of divorce
  2. physical injury.
    rupture of the diaphragm caused by blunt trauma

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

Information about trauma

Hyphenation of trauma

trauma

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • trauma is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

trauma synonyms

Meaning injury:

injury, hurt, harm

Meaning physical harm that impairs the value, usefulness, or normal function of something:

damage

Meaning an injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact, typically one in which the skin is cut or broken:

wound

Meaning causing physical injury:

wounding

Meaning a raw or painful place on the body:

sore

Meaning an injury appearing as an area of discoloured skin on the body, caused by a blow or impact rupturing underlying blood vessels:

bruise

Meaning a stroke or blow given by a sharp-edged implement or by a whip or cane:

cut

Meaning a deep cut or tear in skin or flesh:

laceration

Meaning a region in an organ or tissue which has suffered damage through injury or disease, such as a wound, ulcer, abscess, or tumour:

lesion

Meaning an area damaged by scraping or wearing away:

abrasion

Meaning a region of injured tissue or skin in which blood capillaries have been ruptured; a bruise:

contusion

trauma antonyms

Meaning the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again:

healing

Anagrams of trauma

Tamaru, Taruma

Words that rhyme with trauma

Bauma, bradycauma, cauma, encauma, Wimauma, appauma, arthrotrauma, barotrauma, neurotrauma, polytrauma, volutrauma

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