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say it: SEN-suh-tahyz
sensitize is a verb meaning "make sensitive or aware". It carries 4 recorded senses.
make sensitive or aware
“He was not sensitized to her emotional needs”
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sensitize come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.