sensitize
verb (used with object)
to render sensitive.
sensitized
Example Sentences
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Once sensitized, people may experience allergic symptoms after eating foods such as beef, pork, or lamb.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 17, 2025
“Throughout California, throughout the West, throughout communities that have had wildfire experience, we are particularly primed and sensitized to that news,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025
The authors of these books regarded the fact that other people had become sensitized in their language use as at best a personal affront and at worst a conspiracy.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025
UW Medicine has also opened conversations with other regional health care systems about working with more highly sensitized patients in the Pacific Northwest.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2023
Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
