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1. Making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli
   "Thus, instead of desensitizing the fearful dog, the trainer had reinforced the fear";
   - 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: numbing, predisposition, sensitivity

Type of: alter, change, modify

Antonym: sensitize

Encyclopedia: Desensitize