désensibiliser
French, verb/de.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.ze/
désensibiliser is a French verb meaning “to desensitize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire cesser d’être sensible (en particulier, sensible à un allergène)”.
What does désensibiliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to desensitize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire cesser d’être sensible (en particulier, sensible à un allergène).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of désensibiliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- désensibilisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- désensibilisé participle past
- désensibilise first-person indicative present
- désensibilises indicative present second-person
- désensibilisons first-person indicative plural
- désensibilisez indicative plural present
- désensibilisent indicative plural present
- désensibilisais first-person imperfect indicative
- désensibilisait imperfect indicative singular
- désensibilisions first-person imperfect indicative
- désensibilisiez imperfect indicative plural
- désensibilisaient imperfect indicative plural
- désensibilisai first-person historic indicative
- désensibilisas historic indicative past
- désensibilisa historic indicative past
- désensibilisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce désensibiliser?
- /de.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.ze/
- \de.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to désensibiliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is désensibiliser in French?
désensibiliser appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).