sensitize.
To make (someone or something) sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli.
Meaning & usage
To make (someone or something) sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli.
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.
To render capable of being acted on by actinic rays of light.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English sensitive Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English sensitize From sensitive + -ize.
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