sensitize

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sensitize Definition

• (v) make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs"
• (v) cause to sense; make sensitive; "She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society"; "My tongue became sensitized to good wine"
• (v) make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen"
• (v) make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; "sensitize the photographic film"

sensitize Synonyms

• sensibilise
• sensibilize
• sensify
• sensitise
• sensitize