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sensitizing   (TTS Sound)

The noun sensitizing has 1 sense

• sensitizing, sensitising, sensitization, sensitisation -- (rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections)

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")

The adj sensitizing has 1 sense

• sensitizing, sensitising -- (making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli)