1. Making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli
   - desensitising [Brit]

1. Cause not to be sensitive
   "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized"
   - desensitise [Brit] 
2. Make insensitive
   "His military training desensitized him"
   - desensitise [Brit]

See also: desensitization, numbing, predisposition, sensitivity

Type of: alter, change, modify

Antonym: sensitize, sensitizing

Encyclopedia: Desensitize

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