Sensitize
verb
To make someone or something responsive or sensitive to something.
The campaign aimed to sensitize the public to the issue of global warming.
Often appears as...
- sensitize to an issue
- sensitize the public
verb
To cause an allergic reaction to a substance after exposure to it.
Prolonged exposure to the chemical can sensitize individuals, causing severe allergic reactions.
Often appears as...
- sensitize to a substance
- sensitize skin
verb
To make a photographic film sensitive to light or other radiation.
The photographer will sensitize the film before taking the shot.
Often appears as...
- sensitize a film
- sensitize photographic materials
verb
To increase the strength of a radio signal using a device.
To boost the transmission, we need to sensitize the signal using an amplifier.
Often appears as...
- sensitize the signal
- sensitize radio waves
verb
To make someone or something responsive or sensitive to something.
The campaign aimed to sensitize the public to the issue of global warming.
Often appears as...
- sensitize to an issue
- sensitize the public
verb
To cause an allergic reaction to a substance after exposure to it.
Prolonged exposure to the chemical can sensitize individuals, causing severe allergic reactions.
Often appears as...
- sensitize to a substance
- sensitize skin
verb
To make a photographic film sensitive to light or other radiation.
The photographer will sensitize the film before taking the shot.
Often appears as...
- sensitize a film
- sensitize photographic materials
verb
To increase the strength of a radio signal using a device.
To boost the transmission, we need to sensitize the signal using an amplifier.
Often appears as...
- sensitize the signal
- sensitize radio waves
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Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Impact
Using 'sensitize' in social contexts highlights empathy and awareness about issues.
The documentary aimed to sensitize viewers to the struggles of refugees.
Pro Tip 2/2Awareness Campaigns
'Sensitize' is often used to describe actions intended to make people notice and care about issues.
Schools attempt to sensitize students to the importance of recycling.
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Impact
Using 'sensitize' in social contexts highlights empathy and awareness about issues.
The documentary aimed to sensitize viewers to the struggles of refugees.
Pro Tip 2/2Awareness Campaigns
'Sensitize' is often used to describe actions intended to make people notice and care about issues.
Schools attempt to sensitize students to the importance of recycling.
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Impact
Using 'sensitize' in social contexts highlights empathy and awareness about issues.
The documentary aimed to sensitize viewers to the struggles of refugees.
Pro Tip 2/2Awareness Campaigns
'Sensitize' is often used to describe actions intended to make people notice and care about issues.
Schools attempt to sensitize students to the importance of recycling.
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What happens to your...
and some of the blood vessels and layers covering the cerebral cortex. Once activated, the trigeminal nerve transmits pain signals. During a migraine, this pain pathway becomes sensitized, meaning the threshold for provoking pain is lowered. Sensations that would usually be pain-free,
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Kailash Satyarthi: How...
that's not done. And I believed in the power of consumers, and let me tell you that this was the first time when a campaign was launched by me or anywhere in the world, to educate and sensitize the consumers
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Safari Live - Day 329 PIPE...
try to sensitize the people and educate them and you know either give them alternatives for the big huge trees they are cutting I'm talking about the ground hornbills so that will keep protecting
Video examples
What happens to your...
and some of the blood vessels and layers covering the cerebral cortex. Once activated, the trigeminal nerve transmits pain signals. During a migraine, this pain pathway becomes sensitized, meaning the threshold for provoking pain is lowered. Sensations that would usually be pain-free,
Video examples
Kailash Satyarthi: How...
that's not done. And I believed in the power of consumers, and let me tell you that this was the first time when a campaign was launched by me or anywhere in the world, to educate and sensitize the consumers
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 329 PIPE...
try to sensitize the people and educate them and you know either give them alternatives for the big huge trees they are cutting I'm talking about the ground hornbills so that will keep protecting
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Rita Dove
American Poet
As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.
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Tom Odell
British Musician
I find myself more affected by music the more I do it. Particularly when you're touring, and you're in the bus, and you're listening to loads of music. Life becomes far more dramatic, I guess - you're never in the same place; you're constantly meeting new people. You almost become more sensitized to music.
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Munira Mirza
British Public Servant
The growth of race relations management, diversity training and 'promoting good relations' has come at a cost. We are more sensitized to racism, yet far less confident in talking to each other as human beings with similar hopes, problems and aspirations.
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Amy Waldman
American Author
And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.
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Mellody Hobson
American Businessman
I grew up going to a school where there weren't a lot of black kids. And so my mother, from a very, very young age, has sensitized me to race.
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Brian Grazer
American Producer
I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet.
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Thomas McGuane
American Author
I think anybody alert to the inspiration to write has to be kind of sensitized to the unexpected.
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Timothy Noah
American Journalist
Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
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Janet Fitch
American Author
I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.
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Fei-Fei Li
Chinese Scientist
Weaponized AI is probably one of the most sensitized topics of AI - if not the most.
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Rita Dove
American Poet
As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.
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Tom Odell
British Musician
I find myself more affected by music the more I do it. Particularly when you're touring, and you're in the bus, and you're listening to loads of music. Life becomes far more dramatic, I guess - you're never in the same place; you're constantly meeting new people. You almost become more sensitized to music.
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Munira Mirza
British Public Servant
The growth of race relations management, diversity training and 'promoting good relations' has come at a cost. We are more sensitized to racism, yet far less confident in talking to each other as human beings with similar hopes, problems and aspirations.
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Amy Waldman
American Author
And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.
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Mellody Hobson
American Businessman
I grew up going to a school where there weren't a lot of black kids. And so my mother, from a very, very young age, has sensitized me to race.
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Brian Grazer
American Producer
I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet.
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Thomas McGuane
American Author
I think anybody alert to the inspiration to write has to be kind of sensitized to the unexpected.
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Timothy Noah
American Journalist
Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
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Janet Fitch
American Author
I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.
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Fei-Fei Li
Chinese Scientist
Weaponized AI is probably one of the most sensitized topics of AI - if not the most.
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