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- 1. make less sensitive: "creams to desensitize the skin at the site of the injection"
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Learn the meaning of desensitize, a verb that means to make someone or something less sensitive or responsive to a stimulus. See examples, synonyms, word history, and medical usage of desensitize.
Desensitize means to cause someone to experience something less strongly than before. See how to use this verb in different contexts, such as psychology, biology, and medicine, with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus and Wikipedia.
Desensitize means to cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than before. Learn how to use this word in sentences, how to pronounce it and how to translate it in different languages.
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 means to make someone or something less sensitive or responsive to something, such as pain, fear, or light. Learn how to use this verb in different contexts, with synonyms and examples from Collins Dictionary.
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
