sensitizing meaning

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sensitizing (adjective): making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli.

sensitizing has 2 meanings in this dictionary, as adjective and noun.

sensitizing as an adjective

  1. making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli

    Synonyms: sensitising

    Opposite: desensitizing

sensitizing as a noun

  1. rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections

    Synonyms: sensitising, sensitization, sensitisation

    Type of: immunization

Scrabble score: 21 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with SE · words ending in NG · 11-letter words

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