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Desensitize meaning
To reduce or eliminate the sensitivity of (someone) or in (something); to become insensitive. | To render (someone) emotionally or sensationally less responsive or irresponsive, as by long or repeated exposure to something. | To reduce or eliminate the sensitivity of (someone) or in (something); to become insensitive.
Example sentences (8)
They point to reports that children have dressed up dead possums or drowned baby possums in buckets of water during school hunting fund-raisers as evidence that the events desensitize young people to violence.
Doctors can offer allergy shots if appropriate, and that basically takes a small amount of the thing you're allergic to and puts it in a shot form to desensitize your body to the allergen.
Holding on to these negative attitudes becomes like a growing infection that can also desensitize us from having sympathy and compassion for others.
Repeated demonstrations against the mistreatment of animals raised for human consumption not only desensitize the general populace; they also ignore many of the problems surrounding the vegan lifestyle.
Your only concern for a while will be to desensitize the dog to his enclosure.
Negative feedback can be used to correct output errors or to desensitize a system to unwanted fluctuations.
Patients are taught how to desensitize in the most effective way, then progress to using mirrors to rewrite the faulty signals in the brain that appear responsible for this condition.
The vast production of RDX could not continue to rely on the use of natural beeswax to desensitize the RDX.