Associations to the word «Desensitise»

Wiktionary

DESENSITISE, verb. Alternative spelling of desensitize

Dictionary definition

DESENSITISE, verb. Cause not to be sensitive; "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized".
DESENSITISE, verb. Make insensitive; "His military training desensitized him".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope