Usually means: Make more responsive or aware.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensitise: Merriam-Webster
  2. sensitise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sensitise: Vocabulary.com
  4. sensitise: Wordnik
  5. sensitise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sensitise: Wiktionary
  7. sensitise: Dictionary.com
  8. sensitise: Rhymezone
  9. sensitise: FreeDictionary.org
  10. sensitise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. sensitise: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensitise: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. sensitise: Medical dictionary

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▸ verb:  (British spelling) Alternative spelling of sensitize [To make (someone or something) sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli.]

Similar:
sensitize, sensibilize, sensitivize, instinctualise, sensualise, magnetise, sentimentalise, sexualise, energise, contextualise, more...

Opposite:
desensitize, dull, numb, deaden

Types:
acclimate, inure, habituate, more...

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Similar:
sensitize, sensibilize, sensitivize, instinctualise, sensualise, magnetise, sentimentalise, sexualise, energise, contextualise, more...

Opposite:
desensitize, dull, numb, deaden

Types:
acclimate, inure, habituate, more...



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