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trauma - 8 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | trauma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe mental or physical pain |
| Synonyms: | agony, anguish, blow, collapse, confusion, damage, derangement, disturbance, hurt, injury, jolt, ordeal, outburst, shock, strain, stress, suffering, torture, upheaval, upset, wound, traumatization |
| Antonyms: | healing, help, relief, alleviation |
| Main Entry: | concussion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collision, shaking |
| Synonyms: | blast, blow, bump, clash, clout, crack, crash, hit, impact, injury, jar, jarring, jolt, jounce, punch, shock, trauma, buffeting, jolting, pounding |
| Main Entry: | crisis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | critical situation |
| Synonyms: | catastrophe, change, climax, confrontation, contingency, corner, crossroad, crunch*, crux, culmination, deadlock, dilemma, dire straits, disaster, embarrassment, emergency, entanglement, exigency, extremity, height, imbroglio, impasse, juncture, mess, moment of truth*, necessity, pass, pickle*, pinch*, plight, point of no return*, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, situation, stew, strait, trauma, trial, trouble, turning point, urgency, big trouble, climacteric, hot potato, hour of decision, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | calm, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | injury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurt, harm |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, abuse, affliction, affront, agony, bad, bite, blemish, bruise, burn, chop, cramp, cut, damage, detriment, discomfiture, disservice, distress, evil, fracture, gash, grievance, hemorrhage, ill, indignity, injustice, insult, laceration, lesion, libel, loss, mischief, misery, nick, ouch*, outrage, pang, ruin, scar, scratch, shock, slander, sore, sprain, stab, sting, suffering, swelling, trauma, twinge, wound, wrong, boo-boo, deformation, impairment, mutilation |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, benefit, blessing, favor, good, health, help, right |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complete surprise; blow |
| Synonyms: | awe, breakdown, bump, clash, collapse, collision, concussion, confusion, consternation, crash, distress, disturbance, double whammy, earthquake, encounter, excitement, hysteria, impact, injury, jarring, jolt, percussion, prostration, ram, scare, start, stroke, stupefaction, stupor, trauma, turn, upset, whammy*, wreck, bombshell, eye-opener, traumatism |
| Antonyms: | expectation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wound |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bruise, cut, damage, distress, gash, grief, harm, heartbreak, hurt, insult, laceration, lesion, pain, pang, shock, slash, torment, torture, trauma |
| Main Entry: | post-traumatic stress disorder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | condition following trauma |
| Synonyms: | battle fatigue, trauma, PTSD, PTSS, delayed-stress disorder, delayed-stress syndrome, post-traumatic stress syndrome, railway spine, shell-shock |
| Main Entry: | stress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental pressure |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, alarm, albatross*, anxiety, burden, clutch, crunch, disquiet, disquietude, distention, draw, dread, expectancy, extension, fear, ferment, flutter, force, hardship, hassle, heat, impatience, intensity, misgiving, mistrust, nervousness, oppression, passion, pull, restlessness, spring, strain, stretch, tension, traction, trauma, trepidation, trial, urgency, worry, apprehensiveness, fearfulness, nervous tension, overextension, protraction, tautness, tenseness, tensity, tightness |
| Antonyms: | indifference, relaxation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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