<p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object)<ul><li>desensitized, desensitizing</li><li>to lessen the sensitiveness of.</li><li>to make indifferent, unaware, or the like, in feeling.</li><li>Photography: to make less sensitive or wholly insensitive to light, as the emulsion on a film.</li><li>Printing: to treat (the design on a lithographic plate) with an etch in order to increase the capacity to retain moisture, and to remove traces of grease.</li><li>Chemistry: to reduce the sensitivity of (an explosive) to those stimuli capable of detonating it.</li></ul></li></ul>