sensitise

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make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs"
make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen"
make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; "sensitize the photographic film"
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"
{f} cause sensitivity, make sensitive (also sensitize)
sensitize
To become increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way

Ever since the burglary, we've been more sensitized to home security issues.

sensitize
make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen"
sensitize
To become increasingly aware of in a concerned or sensitive way
sensitize
make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; "sensitize the photographic film"
sensitize
If a substance is sensitized to something such as light or touch, it is made sensitive to it. Skin is easily irritated, chapped, chafed, and sensitized. sensitised nerve endings
sensitize
sen·si·tize sensitizes sensitizing sensitized in BRIT, also use sensitise1. If you sensitize people to a particular problem or situation, you make them aware of it. It seems important to sensitize people to the fact that depression is more than the blues How many judges in our male-dominated courts are sensitized to women's issues?
sensitize
make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs" make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; "sensitize the photographic film" make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen" 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
make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs"
sensitize
{f} cause sensitivity, make sensitive (also sensitise)
sensitize
To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate
sensitize
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
sensitise
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