Desensitised

Word DESENSITISED
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Definitions and meanings of "Desensitised"

What do we mean by desensitised?

To cause to become less sensitive or insensitive.

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The word "desensitised" in example sentences

Hugh Hefner claims seeing women naked '' never loses its magic '' even though he has become slightly '' desensitised '' to nudity over the years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another use of the peanuts would be in immunotherapy - helping patients who have an established allergy become 'desensitised' by giving them a low dose of peanuts over time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It teaches the person to be "desensitised" to his emotions while preventing the unwanted behaviour. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Adding to the confusion, Lidstone said that the agency's focus groups also showed the public was becoming "desensitised" to unseasonal weather and dramatic events like flooding. ❋ Juliette Jowit (2010)

Now he says he has been left "desensitised", trusting no one outside his immediate family; his faith in humanity all but destroyed. ❋ Mike Rivero (2010)

The report said: "The head of the programmes team at one centre felt that some staff might have become 'desensitised' to the feelings and anxieties of young people and their families when they were placed many miles from home in a strange area with a different local subculture, where the staff 'talk funny'." ❋ Unknown (2010)

"desensitised" Curtis, as there had been to that point no long term consequences. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Danny Webb as the callous but defenceless Ian, Lydia Wilson as the surprisingly tough, resourceful Cate and Aidan Kelly as the soldier desensitised by war are also first-rate. ❋ Michael Billington (2010)

Maybe it's time for the increasingly desensitised masses to recognise that real murder cases do not exist for our entertainment, like an episode of Miss Marple or CSI. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What's happened, I think, is that we've been completely desensitised. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I am thinking that the average Portlandian has become desensitised to the feeling of smugness by repeated over stimulation to the point that to feel smug once again on a group ride they must supplement the activity with some carbon emission reducing surgery. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

I am thinking that the average Portlandian has become desensitised to the feeling of smugness by repeated over stimulation to the point that to feel smug once again on a group ride they must supplement the activity with some carbon emmission reducing surgery. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

The thing about porn, speaking as a woman who enjoys watching it from time to time, is that unfortunately it does tend to make one desensitised and harder to please. ❋ Ms Robinson (2009)

It is just stranger to us, than say the bloodbaths of the European Napoleonic wars where men would stand and be butchered by cannon for hours, and therefore we have not had time to come accustomed and desensitised to it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It's not the media that's desensitised us to violence, it's we how have accepted that, and we shouldn't. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here in South Africa, we have witnessed sporadic outbreaks of what's euphemistically termed by the government "xenophobic attacks" - the brutality of which has shocked a population generally desensitised to acts of violence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I guess a lot of the other audience members are somewhat desensitised to this kind of cultural insult by now because it certainly received a rapturous wave of applause. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It can gradually sleep walk into becoming hardened, desensitised to cruelty, barbarism and evil, until what was considered abnormal or deviant becomes the acceptable norm, as happened in Nazi Germany, Russia, China, Cambodia and now - even Britain. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It can gradually sleep walk into becoming hardened, desensitised to cruelty, barbarism and evil, as happened in Nazi Germany, Russia, China, Cambodia and now - even Britain. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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