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desensitise::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | desensitize |
| Type of | alter, change, modify |
| Derivation | desensitisation |
Examples of desensitise
desensitise
I think credit cards are evil, they desensitise you to spending.
From the metro.co.uk
Or just by constant exposure to fear to desensitise ourselves?
From the psychcentral.com
Video games may get a bad rap, but their ability to desensitise players to violence could help soldiers sleep better.
From the newscientist.com
It's very easy to go overboard and desensitise an audience, or approach it in a way where you trivialise its severity.
From the couriermail.com.au
The most common way to desensitise an explosive is by mixing it with a non-explosive material, such as wax or paper.
From the economist.com
Patients on immunotherapy get small but increasing doses of an allergen to desensitise their immune systems and stop asthma attacks.
From the newscientist.com
Some conclude that video games can desensitise people to real-world violence or temporarily quiet part of the brain that governs impulse control.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Here in Britain, the ebbing of religious faith has combined with our insatiable taste for kitsch to desensitise us to the historic potency of angelology.
From the guardian.co.uk
It's also the reason they show or allow recruits watch violent and pornographic films to desensitise them and turn them into killing machines.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
He knows how to push your buttons to make you feel vulnerable, you can't control him, but with help you can learn to desensitise those buttons.
From the guardian.co.uk
To understand the president's son, and to desensitise him to what was to come, he had to watch videos of tortures and rapes committed by Uday and his friends.
From the mirror.co.uk
- Desensitize: cause not to be sensitive; "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized"
- (Desensitised (song)) Forum is an album by Australian guitar pop group Invertigo. The album was released in 2001 with some songs (such as "Desensitised" and "Chances Are") recorded in 2000.
- (Desensitisation) The lessening or disappearance of a (often negative) response through the pairing of a positive reinforcer with the negative stimulus or event; the process of turning an unfamiliar/scary object/event toward a neutral position. ...
- (DESENSITISATION) Some sensory integration therapists believe that it may be possible to reduce tactile defensiveness be gradually exposing the child with an Autistic disorder to touch in a way which is safe and enjoyable to them.
