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