'Sensitize' definitions:
Definition of 'sensitize'
From: WordNet
verb
Make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs" [syn: sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise] [ant: desensitise, desensitize]
verb
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]
verb
Make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen" [syn: sensitize, sensitise]
verb
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]
Definition of 'Sensitize'
From: GCIDE
- 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]