Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb same as
desensitize .
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- verb Alternative spelling of
desensitize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause not to be sensitive
- verb make insensitive
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Examples
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That quote is from Scientists look to 'desensitise' kids to food allergens by Stephen Daniells on the FoodNavigator-USA. com site.
Desensitizing Food Allergies Possible in New Study Steve Carper 2006
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That quote is from Scientists look to 'desensitise' kids to food allergens by Stephen Daniells on the FoodNavigator-USA. com site.
Archive 2006-11-01 Steve Carper 2006
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This is, at least, a far more interesting debate than the unfounded fear that computer games, like gory films, cause violent behaviour over time or at least 'desensitise' the young to violence.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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This is, at least, a far more interesting debate than the unfounded fear that computer games, like gory films, cause violent behaviour over time or at least 'desensitise' the young to violence.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The research team also believes that the new, safer peanut could also be used to help desensitise sufferers.
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Rather the reverse: the more money people acquire, the more they seek to cocoon and desensitise themselves from the broader community.
Zero-sum World: Politics, Power and Prosperity After the Crash by Gideon Rachman – review John Kampfner 2010
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A perennial criticism of violence in films is that it's liable to desensitise the viewer.
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I think that government and police are doing these things quite deliberately to desensitise and cower the population.
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However he wondered whether by using the metaphor of rape, Zapiro was not "cheapening" the horror of the act and helping to desensitise people.
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I imagine that would desensitise them to the presence of people nearby, but I think in this case that step has already been passed.
Time for a parrot StyleyGeek 2007
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