verb To 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.
verb 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.
verb To render (a person or animal) nonreactive or insensitive to an allergen.
verb To render (a photographic plate or film) less sensitive or insensitive to actinic rays of light.
verb To free (someone) from the emotional charge of a neurosis or complex.
verb To make non-image portions of (a lithographic stone or plate) repellent to ink.