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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make sensitive: "The polarity principle . . . sensitizes the observer to the coexistence of seemingly contradictory phenomena” ( Heinz Eulau).
  2. v. To make (a film or plate) sensitive to light, especially to light of a specific wavelength.
  3. v. To make hypersensitive or reactive to an antigen, such as pollen, especially by a second or repeated exposure.
  4. v. To become sensitive or hypersensitive.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To render sensitive; specifically, in photography, to render capable of being acted on by actinic rays of light: as, sensitized paper, or a sensitized plate. See sensitized paper, under paper.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To become increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. (Photog.) To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make sensitive to a drug or allergen
  2. v. cause to sense; make sensitive
  3. v. make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion
  4. v. make sensitive or aware

Etymologies

  1. From sensitive +‎ -ize. (Wiktionary)
  2. sensit(ive) + -ize. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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