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SENSIBILIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sensibilize mean?
• SENSIBILIZE (verb)
The verb SENSIBILIZE has 1 sense:
1. make sensitive or aware
Familiarity information: SENSIBILIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they sensibilize ... he / she / it sensibilizes
Past simple: sensibilized
Past participle: sensibilized
-ing form: sensibilizing
... he / she / it sensibilizes Past simple: sensibilized
Past participle: sensibilized
-ing form: sensibilizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make sensitive or aware
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
sensibilise; sensibilize; sensify; sensitise; sensitize
Context example:
He was not sensitized to her emotional needs
Hypernyms (to "sensibilize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
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