sensitize
pronunciation
How to pronounce sensitize in British English:
UK [ˈsensətaɪz]
How to pronounce sensitize in American English:
US ['sensətaɪz]
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- Verb:
- make sensitive or aware
- cause to sense; make sensitive
- make sensitive to a drug or allergen
- make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion
Word Origin
- sensitize (v.)
- 1856, in photography; see sensitive + -ize. Of persons from 1880. Related: Sensitized; sensitizing.
Example
- 1. Flirt with the feather tickler , designed to sensitize and tantalize .
- 2. The association aims to sensitize employers to the problems faced by left-handed people in the workplace .
- 3. One major goal of ethics education is to sensitize people to ethical problems in the specific contexts of their daily lives and to empower them to ethical decision making .
- 4. So the children from their school level come to know about it and infact the learning from school will help children to sensitize the parents .
- 5. Track indicators the main value of scenarios is that they sensitize you to the way the future is unfolding .