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sensitizing

 
Adjective sensitizing has 1 sense
  1. sensitizing, sensitising - making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli
    Antonyms: desensitizing, desensitising, numbing
Noun sensitizing has 1 sense
  1. 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
  1. 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
    Derived form: noun sensitization2
    Sample sentences:
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    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
  2. 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:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  3. 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
    Derived forms: noun sensitizer1, noun sensitization3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  4. 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:
    Somebody ----s something
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