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- 1. make less sensitive: "creams to desensitize the skin at the site of the injection"
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The meaning of DESENSITIZE is to make (a sensitized or hypersensitive individual) insensitive or nonreactive to a sensitizing agent. How to use desensitize in a sentence. Did you know?
DESENSITIZE definition: 1. to cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than…. Learn more.
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. / 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 meaning: 1. to cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than…. Learn more.
1. to render insensitive or less sensitive. the patient was desensitized to the allergen. to desensitize photographic film. 2. psychology. to decrease the abnormal fear in (a person) of a situation or object, by exposing him or her to it either in reality or in his or her imagination. Collins English Dictionary.
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
1. to lessen the sensitiveness of. 2. to make indifferent, unaware, or the like, in feeling. 3. to make less sensitive or wholly insensitive to light, as the emulsion on a film. [1900–05]
to render insensitive or less sensitive: the patient was desensitized to the allergen; to desensitize photographic film 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
desensitize meaning, definition, what is desensitize: to make someone react less strongly to s...: Learn more.
