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   sensitize

   /ˈsɛnsɪtʌɪz/

   verb

   • 1. cause (someone or something) to respond to certain stimuli; make sensitive: "the introductory section aims to sensitize students to the methodology of the course"
   • ▪ make (photographic film) sensitive to light: "the kit sensitizes any 35 mm film in hours"
   • ▪ make (an organism) abnormally sensitive to a foreign substance: "the workers had been immunologically sensitized to the enzyme"

   Derivatives

   • 1. sensitizer noun

   Scrabble Points: 18

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