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Yes, desensitize is playable

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"Desensitize" Definition

verb-transitive

Immunology To make (an individual) nonreactive or insensitive to an antigen.
To make (a photographic film or substance) less sensitive to light.
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).
To render insensitive or less sensitive.

verb

To make emotionally insensitive or callous.
To extinguish an emotional response (as of fear, anxiety, or guilt) to stimuli that formerly induced it.
To make (a sensitized or hypersensitive individual) insensitive or nonreactive to a sensitizing agent.

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