different between desensitize vs propagandize

English

Alternative forms

• desensitise (British)

Etymology

de- +? sensitize

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??s?ns?ta?z/

Verb

desensitize (third-person singular simple present desensitizes, present participle desensitizing, simple past and past participle desensitized)

1. To cause to become less sensitive or insensitive.

   Working in an Operating Room desensitized me to the sight of blood.

Derived terms

• desensitization

Translations

English

Etymology

propaganda +? -ize

Verb

propagandize (third-person singular simple present propagandizes, present participle propagandizing, simple past and past participle propagandized)

1. (intransitive) To use or spread propaganda.
2. (transitive) To tell propaganda to someone in an attempt to influence one's views.
   • 1987, Barbara Alpern Engel, Clifford N. Rosenthal, Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar

     After we'd managed to make ourselves comfortable in this garret, my new friends began to propagandize me. All they knew about me was that I was a student […]

3. (transitive) To use something or someone in propaganda purposes.
   • 1989, Judith E. Zimmerman, Mid-Passage

     He propagandized this panacea with single-minded determination throughout the revolutionary period and even managed to establish a People's Bank for a short time before his arrest in 1849.