Wiktionary
vb. (label en British spelling) (alternative spelling of sensitize English)
WordNet
v. cause to sense; make sensitive; "She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society"; "My tongue became sensitized to good wine" [syn: sensitize] [ant: desensitize, desensitize]
make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen" [syn: sensitize]
make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; "sensitize the photographic film" [syn: sensitize]
make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs" [syn: sensitize, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise] [ant: desensitize]
Usage examples of "sensitise".
Her flesh seemed acutely sensitised by his touch, the lazy ripples intensifying in depth and urgency as his lips moved delicately over her stomach, finding the hollows against her hip-bones.
Galton produces by exposing two negatives on the same sensitised paper for ten seconds or so consecutively.
Then a print is made and a wet plate negative is printed on a sheet of sensitised tinfoil which has been treated with a single-line screen.