desensitize

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. cause not to be sensitive
- The war desensitized many soldiers
- The photographic plate was desensitized
• Syn:
desensitise
• Ant:
sensitise (for: desensitise), sensitize
• Derivationally related forms:
desensitisation (for: desensitise), desensitization
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
numb, benumb, blunt, dull, stun,
bedaze, daze, besot, stupefy, deafen, deaf
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
2. make insensitive
- His military training desensitized him
• Syn:
desensitise
• Ant:
sensitize
• Derivationally related forms:
desensitisation (for: desensitise), desensitization
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody PP

• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise