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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Do it enough times, the theory goes, and you'll desensitise yourself to rejection and boost your confidence.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2024
Children will be given escalating doses at the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk, to desensitise them to peanut proteins.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2022
Children will receive the drug in escalating doses to desensitise them to peanut proteins.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2022
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
In his Death and Disasters series, Warhol snatched images of catastrophes from newspapers and reproduced them en masse, highlighting how the media’s profligate use of images could desensitise us.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2016
