0 to make someone sensitive to something:
1 to make someone familiar with something such as a problem or bad situation:
The association aims to sensitize employers to the problems faced by left-handed people in the workplace.
Potential sensitizing effects of antidepressant drugs on depression.
Thus, even small amounts of illicit substances could have deleterious effects in immigrants ' sensitized ' by chronic social defeat.
As the discussion above suggests, policemen became increasingly sensitized to the visual signifiers that allowed them to differentiate the importuning man or soliciting woman from the crowd.
Thinking in terms of interactions and systems then sensitizes us to the difficulty in explaining the outcome by one factor, even one that has been experimentally changed.
Certain sensitizing and possibly allergenic substances should be marked even if they can only provoke a reaction in sensitized people.
If someone becomes sensitized to nickel, then, of course, if they ever come into contact with it subsequently, they can be subject to a very severe reaction.
Through his tireless efforts, he has brought political and judiciary machinery into action, and sensitized media in favor of the most oppressed children.
One dozen was usually awarded as a highly sensitizing prelude to running the gauntlet.
