desensitizing

• 形容使某人或某物对刺激变得不那么敏感或不易感知的事物；常用于医学或心理学语境，如脱敏治疗或降低反应性。

Describes something that makes someone less sensitive or responsive to a stimulus, often used in medical or psychological contexts.

1. Reducing sensitivityC1formal

   Causing a decrease in sensitivity or responsiveness to physical or emotional stimuli.

   降低敏感性的

   • The repeated exposure to violence in media can be desensitizing.
   • Desensitizing creams are used to reduce pain during medical procedures.
   • The therapist warned that the constant stress might have a desensitizing effect on her emotions.

   同义词deadeningnumbing

   反义词sensitizing

• 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