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desensitize
[ dee-sen-si-tahyz ]
verb (used with object)
- to lessen the sensitiveness of.
- to make indifferent, unaware, or the like, in feeling.
- Photography. to make less sensitive or wholly insensitive to light, as the emulsion on a film.
- Printing. to treat (the design on a lithographic plate) with an etch in order to increase the capacity to retain moisture, and to remove traces of grease.
- Chemistry. to reduce the sensitivity of (an explosive) to those stimuli capable of detonating it.
desensitize
/ 诲颈藧藞蝉蓻苍蝉瑟藢迟补瑟锄 /
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
Derived Forms
- 诲别藞蝉别苍蝉颈藢迟颈锄别谤, noun
- 诲别藢蝉别苍蝉颈迟颈藞锄补迟颈辞苍, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 诲别路蝉别苍顎僺颈路迟颈锄顎卐谤 noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of desensitize1
Example Sentences
Doo-man can鈥檛 work to the best of his ability unless he eats, even if it means desensitizing himself to life鈥檚 gruesome truths.
鈥淚 had become desensitized to tragedy in a way, and I hope this movie makes people question that.鈥
鈥淚 just became so desensitized to everything going on that I was like, 鈥極K, this is my relationship, and this is how it鈥檚 going to be.鈥
"It鈥檚 crazy to me that we鈥檝e gotten so almost desensitized to it, or that no one鈥檚 really calling it out anymore."
Skylar King, who鈥檚 performing at the show, said she had a week of long conversations with her fellow performers on how to joke about climate change without desensitizing people to the seriousness of the topic.
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