ALL meanings of desensitize
de·sen·si·tize
D d - verb desensitize To desensitize someone to things such as pain, anxiety, or other people's suffering, means to cause them to react less strongly to them. 3
- verb desensitize to render insensitive or less sensitive 3
- verb desensitize to decrease the abnormal fear in (a person) of a situation or object, by exposing him to it either in reality or in his imagination 3
- verb transitive desensitize to make (a photographic plate or film) less sensitive to light 3
- verb transitive desensitize to make (a person, animal, or tissue) nonreactive or nonallergic to a substance by removing the antibodies from sensitized cells 3
- verb transitive desensitize to take away the sensitivity of; make less sensitive 2
- verb with object desensitize to lessen the sensitiveness of. 1
- verb with object desensitize to make indifferent, unaware, or the like, in feeling. 1
- verb with object desensitize Photography. to make less sensitive or wholly insensitive to light, as the emulsion on a film. 1
- verb with object desensitize Printing. to treat (the design on a lithographic plate) with an etch in order to increase the capacity to retain moisture, and to remove traces of grease. 1
- verb with object desensitize Chemistry. to reduce the sensitivity of (an explosive) to those stimuli capable of detonating it. 1
- noun desensitize Make less sensitive. 1
- transitive verb desensitize make sb less sensitive 1
- intransitive verb desensitize make sb less sensitive to sth 1
- verb desensitize To cause to become less sensitive or insensitive. 0