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Desensitize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To render insensitive or less sensitive.

v. Immunology To make (an individual) nonreactive or insensitive to an antigen.

v. 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).

v. To make (a photographic film or substance) less sensitive to light.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to cause to become less sensitive or insensitive

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. to rendered insensitive or less sensitive. Opposite of sensitize.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make insensitive

v. cause not to be sensitive

Word Usage

"However, for those at highest risk of severe influenza infection, a method is available to "desensitize" people to the egg proteins in the vaccine (see Egg Allergies)."

Verb Form

desensitized desensitizes desensitizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change modify alter

Variant

sensitize

Form

desensitization

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

deaden

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

sensitize