desensitize
/'di:'sensitaiz/ Cách viết khác : (desensitize) /'di:'sensitaiz/
Definition
- Verb:
- To make less sensitive or reactive: To reduce or eliminate the normal emotional or physical response to something, often through repeated exposure.
- To make non-reactive or less sensitive in a technical context: To treat a material (like photographic film) so it does not react to light or other stimuli.
Usage and Examples
General Usage (Emotional/Physical):
- The constant violence in the news can desensitize people to real suffering.
- The doctor will desensitize the patient to the allergen through a series of injections.
Technical/Scientific Usage:
- The technician had to desensitize the photographic plate before developing it.
Advanced Usage
- "to become desensitized to something": To gradually lose one's sensitivity or emotional reaction to something due to frequent exposure.
- After years in the emergency room, she became desensitized to the sight of blood.
Variants and Related Words
- Desensitization (noun): The process or result of making something less sensitive.
- The desensitization program helped reduce his allergic reactions.
- Desensitizer (noun): An agent or substance that causes desensitization.
- The chemical acts as a desensitizer for the nerve.
Synonyms
- Deaden: To make less sensitive or intense.
- Numb: To deprive of feeling or sensitivity.
- Blunt: To make less sharp or less intense.
Antonyms
- Sensitize: To make sensitive or more responsive.
Related Phrases
- Desensitize someone to something: The standard construction for this verb.
- The goal is not to desensitize students to history, but to help them understand it critically.
Verb
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make insensitive
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His military training desensitized him
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cause not to be sensitive
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The war desensitized many soldiers
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The photographic plate was desensitized
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