Usually means: Make more responsive or aware.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensitize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sensitize: Merriam-Webster
  3. sensitize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sensitize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sensitize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sensitize: Vocabulary.com
  7. sensitize: Wordnik
  8. sensitize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sensitize: Wiktionary
  10. sensitize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sensitize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sensitize: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sensitize: Dictionary.com
  14. Sensitize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sensitize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sensitize: Rhymezone
  17. Sensitize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sensitize: FreeDictionary.org
  19. sensitize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. sensitize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensitize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensitize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensitize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sensitize: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensitize: Idioms

(Note: See sensitized as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  To make (someone or something) sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli.
verb:  To make (someone) increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way.
verb:  (transitive) To render capable of being acted on by actinic rays of light.

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