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sensitize

verb
  1. make sensitive or aware
    “I was not sensitized to your emotional needs.”
    sensifysensibilizesensibilise
  2. make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion
    “sensitize the photographic film”
  3. make sensitive to a drug or allergen
    “Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen”
  4. cause to sense