- numbing - causing numbness or insensitivity; "the numbing effect of grief"
Antonyms: sensitizing, sensitising (indirect, via desensitizing)
- numb, benumb, blunt, dull - make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
--1 is one way to desensitize, desensitise
Sample sentences:
The bad news will numb him
The performance is likely to numb Sue