desensitize
verb (used with object)
to lessen the sensitiveness of.
desensitise
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a variation of
desensitize.
Example Sentences
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"This only serves to desensitise, to normalise and to sometimes radicalise" users, she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
She has had immunotherapy, which involves exposing her to very small amounts of substances she has a reaction to in order to desensitise her system.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2023
Children who are given the treatment can receive the drug in escalating doses to desensitise them to peanut proteins, enabling tolerance to be carefully built over time.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2023
But they also entomb vast tracts of fertile soil, constipate rivers, choke habitats and – acting as a rock-hard second skin – desensitise us from what is happening outside our urban fortresses.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2019
Here in Britain, the ebbing of religious faith has combined with our insatiable taste for kitsch to desensitise us to the historic potency of angelology.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2012
