desensitize

• 动词，指降低对某种刺激的敏感度或反应，常通过反复接触实现。

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.

   降低敏感度

   • 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.

   同义词accustomanesthetizebenumbbluntdeadendullhardeninurenumbstupefy

   反义词sensitize

2. Make less responsiveB2formal

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

   降低敏感度

   • 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.

   同义词anesthetizebluntdeadendullhardeninurenumb

   反义词sensitisesensitize