transcription, транскрипция: [ sensɪtaɪz ]
( sensitizes, sensitizing, sensitized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'sensitise'
1.
If you sensitize people to a particular problem or situation, you make them aware of it. ( FORMAL )
It seems important to sensitize people to the fact that depression is more than the blues...
How many judges in our male-dominated courts are sensitized to women’s issues?
VERB : V n to n , V-ed , also V n
2.
If a substance is sensitized to something such as light or touch, it is made sensitive to it.
Skin is easily irritated, chapped, chafed, and sensitized.
...sensitised nerve endings.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed , V-ed