Answer: desensitizing

AnswerCrossword Clue
desensitizingMake less sensitive
desensitizingMake (someone) less likely to feel shock or distress at scenes of cruelty, violence, or suffering by overexposure to such images
desensitizingDESENSITIZE, to make insensitive
desensitizingFree (someone) from a phobia or neurosis by gradually exposing the person to the thing that is feared