desensitize

1. To make emotionally insensitive or callous.

2. To extinguish an emotional response (as of fear, anxiety, or guilt) to stimuli that formerly induced it.

3. To make (a sensitized or hypersensitive individual) insensitive or nonreactive to a sensitizing agent.

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1. Immunology To make (an individual) nonreactive or insensitive to an antigen.

2. To make (a photographic film or substance) less sensitive to light.

3. To make emotionally insensitive or unresponsive, as by long exposure or repeated shocks: "This movie in effect may resensitize people who thought they were desensitized to violence” ( Steven Spielberg).

4. To render insensitive or less sensitive.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
desensitize	21	Scrabble

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8 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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9 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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10 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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11 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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