Usually means: Reduce sensitivity or responsiveness gradually.
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  1. desensitise: Collins English Dictionary
  2. desensitise: Vocabulary.com
  3. desensitise: Wordnik
  4. desensitise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. desensitise: Wiktionary
  6. desensitise: Dictionary.com
  7. desensitise: Rhymezone
  8. desensitise: FreeDictionary.org
  9. desensitise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. desensitise: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. desensitise: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. desensitise: Medical dictionary

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▸ verb:  Alternative spelling of desensitize [To cause to become less sensitive or insensitive.]

Similar:
hyposensitise, photosensitise, hypersensitise, desocialise, depersonalise, polysensitise, dehypnotise, de-humanise, decivilise, depoliticise, more...

Opposite:
sensitize, heighten awareness

Types:
desensitize, desensitization, more...

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Similar:
hyposensitise, photosensitise, hypersensitise, desocialise, depersonalise, polysensitise, dehypnotise, de-humanise, decivilise, depoliticise, more...

Opposite:
sensitize, heighten awareness

Types:
desensitize, desensitization, more...



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