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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb sensitize has 4 senses
- sensitize(v = verb.change) sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise - make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs" is one way to alter, change, modify
- sensitize(v = verb.perception) sensitise - 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" Antonym: desensitize
- sensitize(v = verb.change) sensitise - make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen" is one way to alter, change, modify
- sensitize(v = verb.change) sensitise - make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; "sensitize the photographic film" is one way to alter, change, modify
Antonym: desensitize
Derived form noun sensitization2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Derived forms noun sensitization3, noun sensitizer1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
sensitize, v. t.
To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sensitize, v.tr. (also -ise)
1 make sensitive.
2 Photog. make sensitive to light.
3 make (an organism etc.) abnormally sensitive to a foreign substance.
1 make sensitive.
2 Photog. make sensitive to light.
3 make (an organism etc.) abnormally sensitive to a foreign substance.
Derivative
sensitization n. sensitizer n.
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