Associations to the word «Sensitize»

Wiktionary

SENSITIZE, verb. To make (someone or something) sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli.
SENSITIZE, verb. To make (someone) increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way.

Dictionary definition

SENSITIZE, verb. Make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs".
SENSITIZE, verb. 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".
SENSITIZE, verb. Make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen".
SENSITIZE, verb. Make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; "sensitize the photographic film".

Wise words

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