make sth/sb insensitive
Frequency: 6.58.5 per million words
To cause something or someone to be unaffected by something.
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Examples (10)
- Years of abuse had made him insensitive to others' suffering.
- The new coating makes the material insensitive to extreme temperatures.
- Repeated exposure to violence can make a person insensitive to human pain.
- The specific design features make the sensor insensitive to magnetic interference.
- His prolonged isolation began to make him insensitive to social cues.
- This protective layer will make the delicate components insensitive to environmental changes.
- Their critical remarks only made her insensitive to their opinions.
- High levels of encryption make the data insensitive to external cyber threats.
- The harsh conditions eventually made the explorer insensitive to the cold.
- A dense outer casing can make the internal mechanism insensitive to physical shocks.