desensitize

• Глагол, используемый для обозначения процесса снижения чувствительности или реакции на что-либо, часто через повторное воздействие.

A verb used to indicate the process of making someone less sensitive or responsive to something, often through repeated exposure.

1. Reduce sensitivityB2formal

   To make someone or something less sensitive or responsive to a stimulus, often through repeated exposure.

   Снизить чувствительность

   • The therapy aims to desensitize patients to their phobias.
   • Repeated exposure to violence can desensitize people to its effects.
   • The medication is used to desensitize the skin to allergens.

   Synonymsaccustomanesthetizebenumbbluntdeadendullhardeninurenumbstupefy

   Antonymssensitize

2. Make less responsiveB2formal

   To cause a person or organism to become less reactive or emotionally affected by something.

   Снизить чувствительность

   • Constant exposure to loud noise can desensitize your hearing.
   • The training is designed to desensitize soldiers to stressful situations.
   • Over time, he became desensitized to the constant criticism.

   Synonymsanesthetizebluntdeadendullhardeninurenumb

   Antonymssensitisesensitize