英语释义
1. to make (a sensitized or hypersensitive individual) insensitive or nonreactive to a sensitizing agent
2. to make emotionally insensitive or callous specifically to extinguish an emotional response (as of fear, anxiety, or guilt) to stimuli that formerly induced it
3. to cause (someone or something) to react less to or be less affected by something to cause (someone or something) to be less sensitive
4. to make less sensitive reduce sensitivity in
desensitize a nerve with a local anesthetic : as
5. to extinguish an emotional response (as of fear, anxiety, or guilt) to stimuli which formerly induced it make emotionally insensitive
evidence that violence on television desensitizes children to actual violence
— Stephanie Harrington
6. to decrease a response (as of a cell receptor) progressively following prolonged exposure to a stimulus
formation of cAMP was reduced significantly in desensitized cells and remained low in the continuous presence of agonist
— S. M. Nilius et al