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desensitize
[ dee-sen-si-tahyz ]
verb (used with object)
, de·sen·si·tized, de·sen·si·tiz·ing.
- 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
/ 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
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Derived Forms
- deˈsensiˌtizer, noun
- deˌsensitiˈzation, noun
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- de·sensi·tizer noun
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Origin of desensitize1
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