0 to cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than before: --
Seeing too much violence on television can desensitize people to it.
Early in its history, it was discovered that liquid nitroglycerin can be desensitized by cooling it to about.
Failing this, it must be assumed that desensitized nitroglycerin is substantially more difficult to detonate, possibly rendering it useless as an explosive for practical application.
Women experiencing pain with intercourse are often prescribed pain relievers or desensitizing agents.
I think that we become so desensitized to them that we don't even see them for what they are.
Tar also damages the mouth by rotting and blackening teeth, damaging gums, and desensitizing taste buds.
In the absence of such a mechanism, all cone pathways would tend to be desensitized together by increases in the light levels of 580-nm background stimuli.
Tinnitus maskers bring about partial or complete inhibition and desensitize patients with tinnitus and phonophobia (discomfort caused by loud sounds which were previously tolerable).
Moreover, children who, as a result of their risky or impulsive behavior, place themselves in threatening or dangerous situations might gradually become further desensitized to stress, because of habituation.
