siedättää (to an allergenic) verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))
tehdä tunnottomaksi verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))
totuttaa verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))
turruttaa verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))

French

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désensibiliser verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))

German

2 entries

abstumpfen verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))
desensibilisieren verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))

Norwegian

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desensitivisere verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))

Portuguese

2 entries

dessensibilizar verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))
insensibilizar verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))

Romanian

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desensibiliza verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))

Russian

3 entries

огрубить verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))
огрублять verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))
охладеть verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))

Spanish

2 entries

desensibilizar verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))
insensibilizar verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))

Swedish

1 entries

avtrubba verb (render emotionally less sensitive or insensitive (to something))

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Pornography can desensitize individuals to sexual content, leading to a need for more extreme material to achieve arousal.

Source: tatoeba (11849116)

Working in an Operating Room desensitized me to the sight of blood.

Source: wiktionary

[…] child pornography is often used by pedophiles and child sexual abusers to stimulate and whet their own sexual appetites, and as a model for sexual acting out with children; such use of child pornography can desensitize the viewer to the pathology of sexual abuse or exploitation of children, so that it can become acceptable to and even preferred by the viewer;[…]

Source: wiktionary

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