English to English
verb
- make sensitive or aware
He was not sensitized to her emotional needs.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- make sensitive to a drug or allergen
Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen.
source: WordNet 3.0
- make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion
Sensitize the photographic film.
source: WordNet 3.0
- To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.
source: Webster 1913
