DESENSITISE Antonyms

• cause to become awake or conscious

• stop sleeping

• make aware

• heighten or intensify

• make lively

• arouse or elicit a feeling

• act as a stimulant

• stir feelings in

• cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

• to evoke sexual feelings

• stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

• raise to a higher energy level

• produce a magnetic field in

• become more extreme

• make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity

• increase the level of

• increase the height of

• make (one's senses) more acute

• make more intense, stronger, or more marked

• give an incentive for action

• provoke or stir up

• urge on; cause to act

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• evoke or provoke to appear or occur

• provide the needed stimulus for

• annoy continually or chronically

• make sensitive or aware

• cause to sense; make sensitive

• make sensitive to a drug or allergen

• make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion

• act as a stimulant

• cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner

• stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

• cause to be alert and energetic

• cause to occur rapidly

• stir feelings in

• provide the needed stimulus for

• a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event

• emotional agitation and excitement

• a rapid active commotion

• move an implement through

• move very slightly

• stir feelings in

• stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

• affect emotionally

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• to begin moving

• mix or add by stirring

• cause to sense; make sensitive

• make sensitive to a drug or allergen

• make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion

• make sensitive or aware