'desensitizes' is a valid word in written English and can be used to refer to the process of making a person less sensitive to something, such as a stimulus or an emotion.
For example: "Over time, the media has desensitized the public to violence."
Prolonged use also desensitizes opioid receptors, resulting in tolerance to oxycodone and necessitating increasing doses of the drug to achieve pain relief.
"Playing with toy guns, saying 'I'm going to shoot you,' desensitizes them," Hill said, "so as they get older, it's easier for them to use a real gun".
In a country where limbs were once shattered by ordnance and land mines, hospitals in Vietnam are treating an alarming caseload of "diabetes foot," an infection that often begins as a minor scrape but then develops into a gangrenous wound because the disease desensitizes patients and compromises the healing process.
"The volume of alarms desensitizes people," he said.
"It exalts violence and cheapens life and desensitizes people to the meaning of all this," he said.
So much research is devoted to studying whether violence on television desensitizes children.
In type 2, plenty of insulin is produced, but the insulin receptors on the target cells appear to be desensitized.
April 20 , 1915 December 4 , 1997oseph Wolpe, South African-born American psychotherapist who helped usher in cognitive behavioral therapy during the 1960s; he devised a treatment to help desensitize patients with phobias by exposing them to their fears incrementally.
A photo posted by Nicki Minaj (@nickiminaj) on Oct 31 , 2015at 4 50pm PDT Writing alongside the post, she said: "Our generation is so desensitized".
There is material that does cater to the idea of a more gentle, emotional interaction, but by and large it is desensitized f*****g".
A heavy, syrupy mixture of gum arabic and a small quantity of nitric acid, the etch is used to protect the drawing from water and to further desensitize the undrawn areas to printing ink.
