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Meaning of word sensitize from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

sensitize   verb

Meaning : Make sensitive or aware.

Example : He was not sensitized to her emotional needs.

Synonyms : sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise

Make insensitive.

His military training desensitized him.
desensitise, desensitize

Meaning : Cause to sense. Make sensitive.

Example : She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society.
My tongue became sensitized to good wine.

Synonyms : sensitise

Cause not to be sensitive.

The war desensitized many soldiers.
The photographic plate was desensitized.
desensitise, desensitize

Meaning : Make sensitive to a drug or allergen.

Example : Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen.

Synonyms : sensitise

Meaning : Make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion.

Example : Sensitize the photographic film.

Synonyms : sensitise