Sensitizing

Definitions: Sensitizing

Sensitizing

Adjective

1. Making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli.

Noun

1. Rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections.

Domain	Definitions
Metallurgy	Precipitation of carbides along the grain boundaries and the resultant increase in susceptibility to corrosion. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Sensitizing

Synonyms: sensitisation (n), sensitising (n), sensitization (n). (additional references)

Antonym: desensitizing (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Sensitizing

Specialty definitions using "sensitizing": CARBON PRINTER ♦ dermatitis venenata ♦ Oxazolone ♦ plant dermatitis ♦ Repression-Sensitization, roller printer, ROLLER-PRINT TENDER. (references)

"Sensitizing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sensitizing" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	100%	2	245,945

Hyphenated Usage
	Containing "sensitizing": Radiation-Sensitizing Agents.
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Language		Translations for "sensitizing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		使敏感 (sensitise, sensitised, sensitising, sensitize, sensitized). (various references)

Danish		sensibilisering (sensitisation, sensitization), sensibiliserende, R43, R42, R 43, R 42. (various references)

Dutch		sensibiliserend, sensibilisatie (sensitization), R43, R42, R 43, R 42. (various references)

Finnish		herkistäminen. (various references)

French		sensibilisation (sensitisation, sensitization), sensibilisant, R43, R42, R 43, R 42. (various references)

German		Sensibilisierung (sensitisation, sensitization). (various references)

Greek		R43 (R 42, R 43), R42 (R 42, R 43), R 43 (R 42, R 43), R 42 (R 42, R 43), ευαισθητοποιός ουσία (R 42, R 43), ευαισθητοποίηση (sensitisation, sensitization). (various references)

Italian		sensibilizzazione (sensitisation, sensitization), sensibilizzante (R 42, R 43), R43 (R 42, R 43), R42 (R 42, R 43), R 43 (R 42, R 43), R 42 (R 42, R 43). (various references)

Korean		민감하게함 (sensitising). (various references)

Pig Latin		ensitizingsay

Portuguese		sensibilizante (R 42, R 43), sensibilização (sensitization), R43 (R 42, R 43), R42 (R 42, R 43), R 43 (R 42, R 43), R 42 (R 42, R 43). (various references)

Russian		активизация (activation, actuation, sensitization). (various references)

Spanish		sensibilizante (R 42, R 43), sensibilización (sensitization), R43 (R 42, R 43), R42 (R 42, R 43), R 43 (R 42, R 43), R 42 (R 42, R 43). (various references)

Swedish		sensibilisering (sensitisation, sensitization, sensitized). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "sensitizing": desensitizing, hypersensitizing, hyposensitizing, photosensitizing, resensitizing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-i-n-n-s-s-t-z"
	-2 letters: insisting.
	-3 letters: ginniest, seizings, tininess, zingiest.
	-4 letters: ensigns, ignites, ingests, insigne, intines, nesting, seining, seising, seizing, seizins, sennits, sensing, signets, siziest, sizings, tensing, zesting.
	-5 letters: ensign, gneiss, ignite, ingest, insets, insist, intine, niseis, seisin, seizin, seniti, sennit, signet, singes, siting, sizing, steins, stings, tennis, tieing, tinges, tining.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-i-n-n-s-s-t-z"
	+2 letters: desensitizing, resensitizing.
	+3 letters: essentializing.
	+4 letters: hyposensitizing.
	+5 letters: hypersensitizing, photosensitizing, sensationalizing.
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