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English to English verb
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make sensitive or aware |  | Example: He was not sensitized to her emotional needs
source: wordnet30
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cause to sense; make sensitive | | Example: She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society
My tongue became sensitized to good wine
source: wordnet30
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make sensitive to a drug or allergen | | Example: Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen
source: wordnet30
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make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion | | Example: sensitize the photographic film
source: wordnet30
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To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. | | source: webster1913
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