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desensitize
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de·sen·si·tize (d-sns-tz)
v.
1. To render insensitive or less sensitive, as a nerve or tooth.
2. To make an individual nonreactive or insensitive to an antigen.
3. To make a person emotionally insensitive or unresponsive, as by long exposure or repeated shocks.

desensitize
1. to deprive of sensation.
2. to subject to desensitization.

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Author of the policy statement, Michael McDowell, said evidence that watching violent or other inappropriate material could damage children's development by desensitising their responses to real-life situations was now too strong to be ignored.
The US Patent 6,773,695 claims a method of desensitising allergic patients to an allergen where the allergen is directly administered into the lymph node.
 
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