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Desensitize

Verb

Definitionen

1.VerbTo reduce or eliminate the sensitivity of (someone) or in (something); to become insensitive. To render (someone) emotionally or sensationally less responsive or irresponsive, as by long or repeated exposure to something.
"Working in an Operating Room desensitized me to the sight of blood."
2.VerbTo render (someone) emotionally or sensationally less responsive or irresponsive, as by long or repeated exposure to something.
"Working in an Operating Room desensitized me to the sight of blood."
3.VerbTo render (a person or animal) nonreactive or insensitive to an allergen.
4.VerbTo render (a photographic plate or film) less sensitive or insensitive to actinic rays of light.
5.VerbTo free (someone) from the emotional charge of a neurosis or complex.
6.VerbTo make non-image portions of (a lithographic stone or plate) repellent to ink.
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