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Definition of Sensibilize
1. Verb. Make sensitive or aware. "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Sense, Sense, Sensitization
Antonyms: Desensitize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensibilize
Literary usage of Sensibilize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"... do not "sensibilize" the red blood cells, as claimed by Bordet, but that they
unite with the complements to form a third substance (haemolysin), ..."
2. Photography: A New Treatise, Theoretical and Practical, of the Processes and by Allen S. Heath (1855)
"This iodide is used sometimes to sensibilize collodion, and to put in the positive
bath for fixing positives. XII.—FLUORIDE OF POTASSIUM. ..."
3. Diccionario tecnológico inglés-español y español-inglés de los términos y by Néstor Ponce de León (1893)
"to sensibilize, to sensitize. Sensitiva (k.) sensitive, mimose. Sensitivo,
sensitive, sensible. sentada, sitting. Sentado (her.) sejant (mec.) steady. ..."