desensitized
past simple and past participle ofdesensitize
desensitize
verb[T]
(UKusuallydesensitise)uk/ˌdiːˈsen.sɪ.taɪz/us/ˌdiːˈsen.sə.taɪz/tocausesomeone toexperiencesomething, usually anemotionor apain, lessstronglythan before:
Seeing too muchviolenceontelevisioncan desensitizepeopletoit.
Becoming and making less strong
- abate
- abatement
- adulterate
- adulterated
- adulteration
- emasculation
- enervate
- enervating
- enfeeble
- enfeebled
- fade
- hedge
- melt
- relieve
- sink
- totter
- tottering
- turn to jellyidiom
- wane
- waste away
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desensitized
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Such an opsin could possibly respond to the 360-nm stimuli but should also bedesensitizedby our strong orange adapting light.
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This is how the characters communicate - through shock, demanding repulsion as the only possible,desensitizedresponse.
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First, one or more photoreceptor types can bedesensitizedby adaptation thereby leaving the remaining photoreceptors to respond to the stimulus.
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Moreover, children who, as a result of their risky or impulsive behavior, place themselves in threatening or dangerous situations might gradually become furtherdesensitizedto stress, because of habituation.
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In the absence of such a mechanism, all cone pathways would tend to bedesensitizedtogether by increases in the light levels of 580-nm background stimuli.
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I think that we become sodesensitizedto them that we don't even see them for what they are.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Failing this, it must be assumed thatdesensitizednitroglycerin is substantially more difficult to detonate, possibly rendering it useless as an explosive for practical application.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Early in its history, it was discovered that liquid nitroglycerin can bedesensitizedby cooling it to about.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are experimental techniques which appear to havedesensitizedsome allergic individuals.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After 13 seasons, were all a bitdesensitized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Other combatant forces of the period used various explosives, suitablydesensitized(usually by the use of waxes mixed with the explosive).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Studying the literature of the area under study gives preconceptions about what to find and the researcher getsdesensitizedby borrowed concepts.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As a receptor is used, it becomesdesensitizedand unable to operate efficiently for a short period of time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In other words, anything remotely resembling fun has been analyzed, sterilized, sanitized, homogenized, pasteurized,desensitized, computerized and commercialized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The explosive used in the shells themselves was actually adesensitizedblasting gelatin composed of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine.
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