desensitize

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: de=sen=si=tize

OXFORD DICTIONARY

desensitize, v.tr. (also -ise) reduce or destroy the sensitiveness of (photographic materials, an allergic person, etc.).

Derivative

desensitization n. desensitizer n.

THESAURUS

desensitize

KO, anesthetize, bedaze, benumb, besot, blunt, chloroform, coldcock, deaden, dope, drug, dull, etherize, freeze, hebetate, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay out, mull, narcotize, numb, obtund, palsy, paralyze, put to sleep, stun, stupefy