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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. cause not to be sensitive;
- Example: "The war desensitized many soldiers"
- Example: "The photographic plate was desensitized"
[syn: desensitize, desensitise]

2. make insensitive;
- Example: "His military training desensitized him"
[syn: desensitize, desensitise]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

desensitize \desensitize\ v. t. to rendered insensitive or less sensitive. Opposite of sensitize. Syn: deaden. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

desensitize v 1: cause not to be sensitive; "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized" [syn: desensitize, desensitise] [ant: sensitise, sensitize] 2: make insensitive; "His military training desensitized him" [syn: desensitize, desensitise] [ant: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

30 Moby Thesaurus words for "desensitize": KO, anesthetize, bedaze, benumb, besot, blunt, chloroform, coldcock, deaden, dope, drug, dull, etherize, freeze, hebetate, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay out, mull, narcotize, numb, obtund, palsy, paralyze, put to sleep, stun, stupefy