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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (4)

1. make sensitive or aware;
- Example: "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs"
[syn: sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise]

2. cause to sense; make sensitive;
- Example: "She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society"
- Example: "My tongue became sensitized to good wine"
[syn: sensitize, sensitise]

3. make sensitive to a drug or allergen;
- Example: "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen"
[syn: sensitize, sensitise]

4. make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion;
- Example: "sensitize the photographic film"
[syn: sensitize, sensitise]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sensitize \Sen"si*tize\, v. t. (Photog.)
   To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on
   by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or
   plate.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sensitize
    v 1: make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her
         emotional needs" [syn: sensitize, sensitise, sensify,
         sensibilize, sensibilise] [ant: desensitise,
         desensitize]
    2: 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" [syn: sensitize, sensitise] [ant: desensitise,
       desensitize]
    3: make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to
       this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen" [syn:
       sensitize, sensitise]
    4: make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular
       colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion;
       "sensitize the photographic film" [syn: sensitize,
       sensitise]