| 单词 | desensitize |
| 释义 | desensitize (once / 88867 pages) v 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. In both cases, you become less perceptive, or less affected by a sensation or taste. Witnessing violence can likewise desensitize soldiers or war reporters. The word originally referred to photographic development, from de-, "do the opposite of," and sensitize, with its Latin root sentire, "feel or perceive." WORD FAMILYdesensitize: desensitization, desensitized, desensitizes, desensitizing+/desensitise: desensitisation, desensitising/hypersensitive: hypersensitively, hypersensitivity/insensibility: insensibilities/insensible: insensibility, insensibly/insensitive: insensitively, insensitiveness, insensitivity/insensitivity: insensitivities/nonsense: nonsenses, nonsensical/nonsensical: nonsensicalest, nonsensicality, nonsensically/oversensitive: oversensitively, oversensitiveness/sensation: aftersensation, sensational, sensations/sensational: sensationalism, sensationally, unsensational/sensationalism: sensationalisms, sensationalist, sensationalistic/sensationalist: sensationalists/sense: nonsense, sensation, sensed, senseless, senses, sensible, sensing, sensitive, sensor, sensorial, sensuous/senseless: senselessly, senselessness/sensibility: sensibilities/sensible: insensible, sensibilise, sensibility, sensibilize, sensibleness, sensibler, sensiblest, sensibly/sensitise: desensitise, sensitisation, sensitised, sensitiser, sensitising/sensitised: hypersensitised, supersensitised/sensitiser: sensitisers/sensitive: hypersensitive, insensitive, nonsensitive, oversensitive, sensitise, sensitively, sensitiveness, sensitives, sensitivity, sensitize, supersensitive/sensitiveness: sensitivenesses/sensitivity: sensitivities/sensitize: desensitize, sensitization, sensitized, sensitizer, sensitizes, sensitizing/sensitized: hypersensitized, supersensitized/sensitizer: sensitizers/sensor: sensors/sensorial: sensorially/sensuous: sensuously, sensuousness/supersensitive: supersensitively/unsensational: unsensationally USAGE EXAMPLESThis gratuitous publication will horrify many, inspire a few, and, by a small but perceptible increment, further desensitize the rest of us. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) Research on the molecular structure of tropomyosin may eventually lead to a way to desensitize allergic people, scientists say. New York Times(Dec 12, 2016) There’s the endless violence, to which all protagonists are apparently desensitized. The Guardian(Dec 07, 2016) 1v make insensitive His military training desensitized him Syn|Ant|Hyper desensitise sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize make sensitive or aware alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 2v cause not to be sensitive The war desensitized many soldiers The photographic plate was desensitized Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper desensitise sensitise, sensitize cause to sense; make sensitive benumb, blunt, dull, numb make numb or insensitive bedaze, daze, stunovercome as with astonishment or disbelief besot, stupefymake dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation deaf, deafenmake or render deaf alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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