Search Result:sensitized
Overview of verb sensitize
The verb sensitize has 4 senses
- sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise -- (make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs")
- 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")
- sensitize, sensitise -- (make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen")
- sensitize, sensitise -- (make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; "sensitize the photographic film")
Overview of adj sensitized
The adj sensitized has 1 sense
- allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, hypersensitised, sensitized, sensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized, supersensitised -- (having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen")