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