photosensitize

1. 1.

   make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light

   Synonymsphotosensitise

   Broadersensitize

Other forms of photosensitize

past tense

photosensitized·

present participle

photosensitizing·

third person

photosensitizes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about photosensitize

What does photosensitize mean?

photosensitize means "make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light".

How many syllables are in photosensitize?

photosensitize has 5 syllables: pho-to-sen-si-tize. The stress falls on "sen".

What is another word for photosensitize?

Close synonyms include photosensitise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is photosensitize a common word?

photosensitize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.