verb · transitive · rare

sensitize

sensitize · sensitizes · sensitized · sensitizing

sensibilisieren

To make sensitive or responsive to certain stimuliTo make (someone or something) sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli.

US/sˈɛnsətˌaɪz/

» Sensitized consumers seek orientation.

Sensibilisierte Verbraucher suchen Orientierung.

Meaning

3 senses

To make (someone or something) sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli.
sensibilisieren
make sensitive or aware
To make (someone) increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way.
Ever since the burglary, we've been more sensitized to home security issues.
sensibilisieren
make sensitive to a drug or allergen
(transitive)To render capable of being acted on by actinic rays of light.

1 sentences

Sensitized consumers seek orientation.
deSensibilisierte Verbraucher suchen Orientierung.
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By meaning 1

to make sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli:

sensitizes, sensitizing, sensitized, sensitized

regular · Lesson

I, you, we, they	sensitize
he, she, it	sensitizes

all persons

sensitized

I, you, we, they	have sensitized
he, she, it	has sensitized

all persons

will sensitize

5 synonyms

make someone increasingly aware of:familiarizeB2

Close in meaning

make sensitive or aware:sensitise sensify sensibilize sensibilise
make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion:sensitise
make sensitive to a drug or allergen:sensitise
cause to sense; make sensitive:sensitise

1 antonyms

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