What is "sensitize"

Usage examples of "sensitize".

The primary type were simply lumps of nickel-iron with a monomolecular surface layer sensitized to collect up to three days worth of images, and provided with a tiny internal drive unit that would explode on order from the ship or any attempt to block or interfere with the free movement of the device.

The subtle stroking of his fingers there had her breathing faster, her nerve endings sensitizing, reaching out for his heat.

Unbelievably sensitized by all his fondling, she felt everything more intensely, more keenly, more pleasurably, and her orgasm broke over her like the tide, radiating long and slow from deep in her womb until it cracked all over his pistonlike thrusts and brought him home.

During religious excitement the psychic faculty is highly sensitized, giving mischievous spirits, as well as fanatical spirits, the proper opportunity to impress credulous persons with their whisperings.

The habituated response can be dishabituated or sensitized by strong stimuli to another part of the animal, say the tail, in which case the response reappears in all its original strength.

Followers of obsolete unthinkable trades, doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, black marketeers of World War III, excisors of telepathic sensitivity, osteopaths of the spirit, investigators of infractions denounced by bland paranoid chess players, servers of fragmentary warrants taken down in hebephrenic shorthand charging unspeakable mutilations of the spirit, officials of unconstituted police states, brokers of exquisite dreams and nostalgias tested on the sensitized cells of junk sickness and bartered for raw materials of the will, drinkers of the Heavy Fluid sealed in translucent amber of dreams.

She actually sobbed, her senses so heightened, her body so sensitized, his every movement sent whips of dazzling pleasure sizzling through her.

His arms locked around hers to hold her in place while the water bubbled and fizzed over her sensitized skin.

She shook with a tingling spasm that sensitized every nerve with quickened expectation.

For sorcerers this sensation is even more acute, precisely because their goal is to sensitize their connecting link until they can make it function at will.

While Keth, doing his part again, argued angrily and futilely with Barrand and Nelt, she'd been driving out a full-sweep search probe, sensitized to Osselin's mind patterns.

Who would have thought that a sensitized lymphocyte could be fused with a cancer cell to make a kind of cellular antibody factory.

He felt swarmed-over, sensitized, eroticized, and guiltyvery vulnerableas though he had become emotionally dependent on the Frenchman once again, in some dark corner of himself.

Oedipa, sensitized, thinking of the bronze marker, smiled at him as granddaughterly as she knew how and asked, "Did he ever have to fight off desperados?

Best guess always was that the more you interfaced with the grid, the more sensitized you got to it, but that don't always hold true.