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								make sensitive or aware He was not sensitized to her emotional needs
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								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
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								make sensitive to a drug or allergen
 Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen
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								make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion
 sensitize the photographic film
 
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			| 1. Sensitize / Past sensitized
 2. Sensitize / Third Person
 sensitizes
 3. Sensitize / Present Participle
 sensitizing
 
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