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sensitizing

DEFINITIONS OF: sensitizing

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adj making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli

Synonyms:
sensitising
Antonyms:
desensitising, desensitizing
making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli
numbing
causing numbness or insensitivity
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n rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections

Synonyms:
sensitisation, sensitising, sensitization
Type of:
immunisation, immunization
the act of making immune (especially by inoculation)
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