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How to pronounce “desensitize”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of desensitize with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Sex Education Should Start with Consent
But too much porn can desensitize you from real-life pleasures.
- Definition summary
- (ambitransitive) To reduce or eliminate the sensitivity of (someone) or in (something); to become insensitive.
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How to pronounce desensitize
Sex Education Should Start with Consent

But too much porn can desensitize you from real-life pleasures.
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (ambitransitive) To reduce or eliminate the sensitivity of (someone) or in (something); to become insensitive.
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