traumatiser
French, verb/tʁo.ma.ti.ze/
traumatiser is spelled T-R-A-U-M-A-T-I-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,716th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Traumatiser is a French verb meaning “to traumatise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Provoquer un traumatisme physique chez un être vivant”.
What does traumatiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to traumatise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Provoquer un traumatisme physique chez un être vivant. 2. Provoquer un traumatisme moral chez quelqu’un. 3. Marquer durablement et négativement la mémoire en parlant de quelque chose qui heurte la sensibilité.
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 traumatiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- traumatisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- traumatisé participle past
- traumatise first-person indicative present
- traumatises indicative present second-person
- traumatisons first-person indicative plural
- traumatisez indicative plural present
- traumatisent indicative plural present
- traumatisais first-person imperfect indicative
- traumatisait imperfect indicative singular
- traumatisions first-person imperfect indicative
- traumatisiez imperfect indicative plural
- traumatisaient imperfect indicative plural
- traumatisai first-person historic indicative
- traumatisas historic indicative past
- traumatisa historic indicative past
- traumatisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce traumatiser?
- /tʁo.ma.ti.ze/
- \tʁo.ma.ti.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to traumatiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is traumatiser in French?
traumatiser appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).