Overview of verb sensitise

The verb sensitise has 4 senses

• sensitize, sensitise -- (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, sensitise -- (make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen")


• sensitize, sensitise -- (make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; "sensitize the photographic film")


• sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise -- (make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs")

Overview of adj sensitised

The adj sensitised has 1 sense

• allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, hypersensitised, sensitized, sensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized, supersensitised -- (having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen")