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sensitize

🇬🇧 UK/'sensitaiz/🇺🇸 US
GREC2

Definitions

v.

To make someone or something sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli or issues.

使敏感;使意识到,使关注

🧩 Root Breakdown

Root-derived
sensfeel, perceive, sense
+
iconnector
+
tizeto make, to become
=sensitize

Common Collocations

  • 1.sensitize people to让人们意识到
  • 2.sensitize the public提高公众意识
  • 3.[sensitize skin to]使皮肤对…敏感
  • 4.sensitize awareness增强敏感意识

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    The training program aims to sensitize employees to workplace diversity issues.

  • 2.

    Repeated exposure to the chemical can sensitize the skin, causing allergic reactions.

  • 3.

    Schools must sensitize young people to the dangers of online misinformation.

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