Desensitise

Word DESENSITISE
Character 11
Hyphenation desensitise
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Definitions and meanings of "Desensitise"

What do we mean by desensitise?

To cause to become less sensitive or insensitive.

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The word "desensitise" in example sentences

That quote is from Scientists look to 'desensitise' kids to food allergens by Stephen Daniells on the FoodNavigator-USA. com site. ❋ Steve Carper (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The research team also believes that the new, safer peanut could also be used to help desensitise sufferers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rather the reverse: the more money people acquire, the more they seek to cocoon and desensitise themselves from the broader community. ❋ John Kampfner (2010)

A perennial criticism of violence in films is that it's liable to desensitise the viewer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think that government and police are doing these things quite deliberately to desensitise and cower the population. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However he wondered whether by using the metaphor of rape, Zapiro was not "cheapening" the horror of the act and helping to desensitise people. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I imagine that would desensitise them to the presence of people nearby, but I think in this case that step has already been passed. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

Weird I though video games were supposed to desensitise people, but everyone is like “Omg there goes my lunch”. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Issue 3 of neuroscience writing carnival has just been published on Thinking Meat and contains articles on everything from whether video games desensitise us to violence to whether spindle neurons will be the next fashionable thing after 'mirror neurons' have lost their media sparkle. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It may desensitise you somewhat to human suffering, when you encounter it in the real world, but all kinds of things do that, without being intimately connected with your own agency. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

To claim that videogames should be censored or controlled because they promote violence, incite crime, or desensitise children it is first necessary to distance videogames from other forms of literature. ❋ Greg Tannahill (2006)

Maybe there’s a way to desensitise oneself to the guilt? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Part of the plan to desensitise the group included a session of hypnosis, after which they all came face-to-face with one of the scariest spiders on the planet - a very large tarantula. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He's given me information on dilators, which are every bit as glamourous as they sound, for 2, and I can basically desensitise myself with determination and gritted teeth. ❋ Ailbhe (2005)

Or she will welcome sexual contact in an attempt to desensitise herself. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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