desensitize

Once they’re comfortable there, the keepers begin desensitizing them to the poke, giving them treats while they tap them first with a popsicle stick, then a dull needle, and finally an injection.

It is gratuitously violent, and these images have the potential to desensitize people to violence.

Paradoxically, capsaicin desensitizes one to pain, but only after it’s been removed.

Our noses get desensitized to an odor they’ve been smelling for a while, which can be a problem if you’re out tasting wine, or if your job requires you to have a distinctly acute nose.

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