sensitize - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'sensitize' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sensitize

[ v. t.]

- To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.

1 . sensitize

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- make sensitive or aware

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Meaning (2):
- make sensitive to a drug or allergen

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Meaning (3):
- cause to sense; make sensitive

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

Meaning (4):
- make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion

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