desensitize
dis en suh tahyz
- v cause not to be sensitive
The war desensitized many soldiers
The photographic plate was desensitized - v make insensitive
His military training desensitized him
- Quake and its ilk may have helped desensitize a generation--but you're blasting cyborgs, not classmates, and you're certainly not constructing pipe bombs.
- Some of the worst crimes were carried out by gangs of child soldiers, who were fed drugs to desensitize them to the horror of their actions.
- But without an adult to help children articulate what they are seeing, these stories can be disturbing or can desensitize them to the consequences of real violence.