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Adjective sensitizing has 1 sense
- sensitizing, sensitising - making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli
Antonyms: desensitizing, desensitising, numbing
Noun sensitizing has 1 sense
- sensitizing, sensitising, sensitization, sensitisation - rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections
--1 is a kind of immunization, immunisation
Verb sensitize has 4 senses
- sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise - make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
Antonyms: desensitize, desensitise
Sample sentences:
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- sensitize, 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"
Antonyms: desensitize, desensitise
Sample sentences:
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- sensitize, sensitise - make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
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- sensitize, sensitise - make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; "sensitize the photographic film"
--4 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
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