2009년 2월 26일 목요일

desensitize

VERB
To desensitize someone to things such as pain, anxiety, or other people's suffering, means to cause them to react less strongly to them.
  • the language that is used to desensitize us to the terrible reality of war.

...... Cobuild
3. To make emotionally insensitive or unresponsive, as by long exposure or repeated shocks: 
  • "This movie in effect may resensitize people who thought they were desensitized to violence" Steven Spielberg.
...... Am-Heritage

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