Associations to the word «Sensitize»

Wiktionary

SENSITIZE, verb. To make (someone or something) sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli.
SENSITIZE, verb. To make (someone) increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way.

Dictionary definition

SENSITIZE, verb. Make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs".
SENSITIZE, verb. 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".
SENSITIZE, verb. Make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen".
SENSITIZE, verb. Make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; "sensitize the photographic film".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats