0 past simple and past participle of desensitize --
1 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.
The explosive used in the shells themselves was actually a desensitized blasting gelatin composed of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine.
In other words, anything remotely resembling fun has been analyzed, sterilized, sanitized, homogenized, pasteurized, desensitized, computerized and commercialized.
As a receptor is used, it becomes desensitized and unable to operate efficiently for a short period of time.
Studying the literature of the area under study gives preconceptions about what to find and the researcher gets desensitized by borrowed concepts.
Other combatant forces of the period used various explosives, suitably desensitized (usually by the use of waxes mixed with the explosive).
After 13 seasons, were all a bit desensitized.
There are experimental techniques which appear to have desensitized some allergic individuals.
Early in its history, it was discovered that liquid nitroglycerin can be desensitized by cooling it to about.
