sensitize

Verbs

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

Synonyms

sensibilise sensibilize sensify sensitise

Antonyms

desensitise desensitize

Words of close approximity

sensitise sensitive
sensitized sensitizer