traumatise
French, verb
traumatise is spelled T-R-A-U-M-A-T-I-S-E (10 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 22,196th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Traumatise is a French verb meaning “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, traumatisé is a different word: “past participle of traumatiser”.
What does traumatise mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of traumatiser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui souffre d’un traumatisme physique. 2. Qui souffre d’un traumatisme psychique. 3. Durablement marqué par quelque chose de choquant, qui heurte la sensibilité.
noun: 1. Celui qui souffre d’un traumatisme physique. 2. Celui qui souffre d’un traumatisme psychique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of traumatise
- traumatisée feminine
- traumatisés masculine plural
- traumatisées feminine plural
- psychotraumatisée feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is traumatise in French?
traumatise appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).