Usually means: Reduce sensitivity or responsiveness gradually.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. desensitize: Merriam-Webster
  2. desensitize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desensitize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. desensitize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. desensitize: Vocabulary.com
  6. desensitize: Wordnik
  7. desensitize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. desensitize: Wiktionary
  9. desensitize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. desensitize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. desensitize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. desensitize: Dictionary.com
  13. desensitize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. desensitize: Rhymezone
  15. desensitize: FreeDictionary.org
  16. desensitize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. desensitize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. desensitize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desensitize: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desensitize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. desensitize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. desensitize: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desensitize: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desensitize: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  To cause to become less sensitive or insensitive.

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