desensitize

Verb

Meaning

make insensitive

cause not to be sensitive

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

desensitise harden daze drug freeze dull hardened diminish blunt hardening impair soften stun repress chloroform
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Antonyms

sensitize kindle foster promote raise encourage
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Hypernyms

change alter modify

Hyponyms

daze deaf dull blunt stun numb

Examples

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything-on terrorism, drugs, even poverty-has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be? Glenn Greenwald

Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell. Douglas Rushkoff

His military training desensitized him Source: Internet

The war desensitized many soldiers Source: Internet

The photographic plate was desensitized Source: Internet

In prohibiting the consumption of blood, the Torah seems to be concerned that it can excite a blood-lust in human beings and may desensitize us to the suffering of human beings when their blood is spilled." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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