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sen·si·tize
(sĕn′sĭ-tīz′)v. sen·si·tized, sen·si·tiz·ing, sen·si·tiz·es
v.tr.
1. To make sensitive: "Solitude had sensitized him to the roughness of other people" (Jeffrey Eugenides).
2. To make (a film or plate) sensitive to light, especially to light of a specific wavelength.
3. To make hypersensitive or reactive to an antigen, such as pollen, especially by a second or repeated exposure.
v.intr.
To become sensitive or hypersensitive.
[sensit(ive) + -ize.]
sen′si·ti·za′tion (-tĭ-zā′shən) n.
sen′si·tiz′er n.
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| Adj. | 1. |  sensitized - having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen"hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized, allergic susceptible - (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof" |
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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[ˈsɛnsɪˌtaɪzd] adj → sensibilizzato/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995