desensitize

verb

1. 使（尤对问题或负面事物）不再敏感
   to make sb/sth less aware of sth, especially a problem or sth bad, by making them become used to it
   1. People are increasingly becoming desensitized to violence on television.
      大众对电视上的暴力镜头越来越麻木了。
2. 使脱敏；降低敏感作用
   to treat sb/sth so that they will stop being sensitive to physical or chemical changes, or to a particular substance

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 desensitise


1. VERB 使不敏感;使麻木;使无情
   To desensitize someone to things such as pain, anxiety, or other people's suffering, means to cause them to react less strongly to them.
   1. ...the language that is used to desensitize us to the terrible reality of war...
      旨在让我们对战争的残酷现实无动于衷的语言
   2. Your immune system has been desensitized because it has become used to the substance.
      你的免疫系统已经因习惯了这种物质而不再敏感。

1. Your immune system has been desensitized because it has become used to the substance.
   你的免疫系统已经因习惯了这种物质而不再敏感。
2. The woman, we soon found, was acting as a foster mother for a local rescue organization, and had the puppy out to desensitize her to street noise.
   我们很快得知，这名女子是当地一家救援机构的寄养妈妈，带这只小狗出来是为了让它对马路上的噪音脱敏。
3. A parent doesn't want the school to desensitize his or her children.
   做父母的不希望学校使他们的孩子变得麻木。
4. It accustoms a horse to being handled and helps to desensitize ticklish areas.
   刷马使马习惯于被控制并帮助马在一些他怕痒的地方脱敏。
5. Fluoride protector was used to desensitize the prepared teeth before the crowns were cemented in the experimental group.
   目的研究用氟保护漆处理基牙后是否会影响用玻璃离子水门汀粘固的金属烤瓷冠的固位。
6. People who suffer from allergies can sometimes be given injections to help desensitize them.
   过敏症患者有时可以通过给予注射来帮助脱敏。
7. Various studies indicate that a constant release of monoamines can desensitize the neurotransmitters 'receptors.
   各种研究都指出，持续释出单胺类会降低神经传递物受体的敏感度。
8. Using Nd YAG laser to desensitize the hypersensitive dentine in preparing the abutment teeth for removable partial dentures prosthesis
   Nd-YAG激光在可摘局部义齿基牙预备的应用
9. Methods The specific IgE for food and inhalant allergens were detected serologically by ELISA in the sera from 468 cases with the hypersensitive disease. The dermatophagoides farinae injection was used to desensitize the patients who were sensitive only to dust ( powder) mite.
   方法采用酶免疫分析法对468例过敏性疾病患者血清过敏源特异性IgE抗体进行定性检测，并给予仅对尘螨过敏的患者粉尘螨注射液脱敏治疗。

verb

1. make insensitive
   1. His military training desensitized him

   Synonym:    desensitise

2. cause not to be sensitive
   1. The war desensitized many soldiers
   2. The photographic plate was desensitized

   Synonym:    desensitise