sensitize

verb

1. make sensitive or aware

   verb.change

   Examples

   He was not sensitized to her emotional needs.

   Synonyms sensibilise sensibilize sensify sensitise

   Antonyms desensitise desensitize

   Source: WordNet 3.0

2. cause to sense; make sensitive

   verb.perception

   Examples

   She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society.

   My tongue became sensitized to good wine.

   Synonyms sensitise

   Source: WordNet 3.0

3. make sensitive to a drug or allergen

   verb.change

   Examples

   Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen.

   Source: WordNet 3.0

4. make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion

   verb.change

   Examples

   Sensitize the photographic film.

   Source: WordNet 3.0

5. To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, <i>sensitized</i> paper or plate.

   verb

   Source: webster1913