sensitize
英 ['sensɪtaɪz]
美['sɛnsətaɪz]
- vt. 使敏感；使具有感光性
- vi. 变得敏感
英英释意
- 1. make sensitive or aware;
- "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs"
- 2. 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"
- 3. make sensitive to a drug or allergen;
- "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen"
- 4. make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion;
- "sensitize the photographic film"