| 释义 |
de·sensitize
\(ˈ)dē, də̇+\ verb
Etymology: de- + sensitize
transitive verb
1. : to render (a sensitized or hypersensitive individual) insensitive or nonreactive to a sensitizing agent
< desensitized to an allergenic pollen by repeated injections of an extract of that pollen >
2. : to render (a photographic material) less sensitive or completely insensitive to radiation
3. : to make portions of (an offset plate) repellent to ink
4. : to render insensible to some sensation or emotion or insensitive or callous to inhumanity, injustice, degradation
< they have been so successfully desensitized that they are unable to recognize the most obvious facts — Alfred Kantorowicz >
5. : to free (as by psychotherapy) of the emotional charge investing a complex |