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- 1. make less sensitive: "creams to desensitize the skin at the site of the injection"
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DESENSITIZE definition: 1. to cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than…. Learn more.
The meaning of DESENSITIZE is to make (a sensitized or hypersensitive individual) insensitive or nonreactive to a sensitizing agent. How to use desensitize in a sentence. Did you know?
desensitize. / diːˈsɛnsɪˌtaɪz / verb. to render insensitive or less sensitive. to desensitize photographic film. the patient was desensitized to the allergen. psychol to decrease the abnormal fear in (a person) of a situation or object, by exposing him to it either in reality or in his imagination. Discover More. Derived Forms.
DESENSITIZE meaning: 1. to cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than…. Learn more.
To desensitize someone to things such as pain, anxiety, or other people's suffering, means to cause them to react less strongly to them.
To desensitize is to make less sensitive, or less easily upset. Some people say that watching scary movies desensitizes kids to violence. A shot of novocaine desensitizes you to the pain of having a cavity drilled by your dentist, and lots of spicy food can desensitize you to more subtle flavors.
desensitize somebody/something (specialist) to treat somebody/something so that they will stop being sensitive to physical or chemical changes, or to a particular substance. There is no effective serum to desensitize people who are allergic to fleas. See desensitize in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
1. To render insensitive or less sensitive. 2. Immunology To make (an individual) nonreactive or insensitive to an antigen. 3. To make emotionally insensitive or unresponsive, as by long exposure or repeated shocks: "This movie in effect may resensitize people who thought they were desensitized to violence" (Steven Spielberg). 4.
verb. /ˌdiˈsɛnsəˌtaɪz/ [usually passive] Verb Forms. desensitize somebody/something (to something) to make someone or something less aware of something, especially a problem or something bad, by making them become used to it People are increasingly becoming desensitized to violence on television.
sense. the "sense" family. cause not to be sensitive.
