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sense
sensitize
  1. To make (someone or something) sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli.
  2. To make (someone) increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I wanted to sensitize my students to the importance of environmental conservation by taking them on a field trip to a local wildlife sanctuary.”
      “The workshop aimed to sensitize participants to the importance of gender diversity in the workplace, by raising awareness and providing them with a comprehensive understanding of its benefits.”
      “After attending the workshop on diversity, I hope to sensitize my colleagues to the importance of inclusivity in the workplace.”
sensualize
sensationalize
  1. (British English) To glorify or inflate the importance of a piece of news; to artificially create a sensation.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Since Wednesday, I have been fielding phone calls left, right, and centre from journalists who want me to sensationalize the demise.”
      “He conducts with drama, tenderness, and imagination, and he doesn't distort or sensationalize the music.”
      “Moreover, the cumulative effect of the excessive repetition of the video was to distort and sensationalize the story.”
sensationalise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sensationalize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Do not create or show media images that sensationalise people's suffering or put people at risk.”
      “Montgomery's is a confident production that doesn't need to sensationalise to express the moral torpor and emotional immaturity of the characters.”
      “As games mature, more are going to try to explore the issues GTAV attempts to satirise, sensationalise and make ridiculous.”
sensate
  1. (transitive) To feel or apprehend by means of the senses; to perceive.
desensitize
  1. To cause to become less sensitive or insensitive.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The goal is to desensitize you to specific allergens and decrease your need for medications.”
      “In some cases, an allergist may recommend immunotherapy to help desensitize your child.”
      “If your symptoms are especially difficult to control, your doctor may recommend allergy shots to desensitize you to dust mites.”
desensationalize
  1. (transitive) To cause to cease to be sensational; to make acceptable or commonplace.
sensitised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sensitise
sensitized
desensitise
  1. Alternative spelling of desensitize
  2. Examples:
    1. “This, we were told, can desensitise officers, leading to fatigue, lack of ability to cope and, significantly, lack of ability to empathise.”
      “Local anesthetics are used to locally desensitise the tissues to allow surgical interventions.”
      “Low dose antidepressants and antiepileptic pills can help desensitise the nerve.”
sensitise
  1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of sensitize
  2. Examples:
    1. “Before the introduction of troglitazone in 1997 metformin was the only drug able to sensitise target tissues to insulin.”
      “It was hoped, Witbooi added, that this would sensitise the youth on what was wrong and right in society.”
      “This is necessary to sensitise other organisations, scientists and government functionaries as well.”
sensualise
  1. (British spelling, transitive) Alternative form of sensualize
sensitising
  1. present participle of sensitise
sensitizing
sensing
sensibilize
  1. (nonstandard) To sensitize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Xhemaili assesses that the Albanian party on power should be careful not to sensibilize the Albanian population in Macedonia during the creation of the state symbols.”
desensationalizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desensationalize
sensationalises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sensationalise
sensationalizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sensationalize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Wood observes that the revised version added a barker's spiel at the beginning and end, which sensationalizes the freaks and their violence.”
      “I think folks like you contribute to the deaths of American soldiers and innocent Iraqis because your ilk sensationalizes the insurgents.”
      “Roger's misadventures as he loses sight of Bob and Joan and passes through these villains' clutches are emphatically punctuated with excerpts from The Daily Scourge, a tabloid that sensationalizes with alacrity.”
desensitises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desensitise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Just as cruelty to animals on an individual level brutalises and desensitises, cruelty on an institutional level must similarly damage our collective psyche.”
desensitizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desensitize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A conjunctival anesthetic involves injecting medication under the conjunctiva which desensitizes the area of the eye which will be operated.”
      “So much research is devoted to studying whether violence on television desensitizes children.”
      “Capsaicin first activates the pain receptors, causing a mild burning sensation, but upon repeated application to the skin it desensitizes the receptors and relieves the pain.”
desensationalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of desensationalize
sensualises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sensualise
sensualizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sensualize
  2. Synonyms:
sensitises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sensitise
sensitizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sensitize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Depletion of cellular glutathione levels sensitizes cells to the toxic effects of these carcinogens.”
      “Genuine art sensitizes, vitalizes, humanizes and always represents a danger to the existing state of things.”
      “I believe that such an exercise sensitizes students to the family as they engage in the reflecting-team experience.”
sensationalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sensationalise
  2. Examples:
    1. “In the early days, some media latched onto the story and it was sensationalised by those who anchored it to their agenda and preconceptions.”
      “They located or procured party dissidents and sensationalised their grievances.”
      “Headlines are bigger, stories are shorter, and events are sensationalised.”
sensationalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sensationalize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Martin is pleased that the film has made its way back to his birthplace, especially given the way American media has sensationalized the topic.”
      “Youth crime stories are often sensationalized on the front page of the paper, as in the case of last year's school shootings.”
      “In answer to your inquiry, my quote was taken out of context and sensationalized.”
sensates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sensate
desensitised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of desensitise
  2. Examples:
    1. “At this time, the patient is open to suggestion, and can be desensitised towards fears, phobias, pain and personal issues.”
      “Before my nostrils could become desensitised to the aroma, I decided to follow my nose to its source.”
      “We should roll the credits right now on this desensitised approach to the important responsibility of appropriate timing by Hollywood towards such shattering world events.”
desensitized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of desensitize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The war's cruelty has shocked a country that thought it was desensitized to violence.”
      “Of course, once you start watching it, you'll have to get desensitized in a hurry.”
      “With increased exposure to such scenes, we become desensitized to the fear of blood which has been instilled in us.”
senses
senseth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of sense
sensualized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sensualize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “As a result, their collective memory of the revolutionary era is emotionalized and sensualized.”
sensualised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sensualise
desensationalizing
  1. present participle of desensationalize
sensationalising
  1. (Britain) present participle of sensationalise
sensationalizing
sensated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sensate
sensest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of sense
sensed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sense
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She sensed someone moving very quickly after her before she was hit from behind and had her bag snatched.”
      “Fans sensed that his commitment to maintaining fitness was less than wholehearted.”
      “But Paul Hartley, having sped down the right flank into the box, sensed glory and drove the ball straight at goal from an acute angle.”
desensitizing
  1. present participle of desensitize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Applying lidocaine cream to your forehead may relieve migraine pain by desensitizing the nerves that trigger it.”
      “Confused by this, I rub along the sides of my mouth, desensitizing my over-active nerves.”
      “The CAM practitioner injects extracts of suspected allergens under your skin with the goal of eventually desensitizing you to them.”
desensitising
  1. present participle of desensitise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The treatment works by desensitising the immune system so its reaction to a particular substance is reduced over time.”
      “Topical application of agents including caries preventive agents, tooth desensitising agents, surface anaesthetic and plaque controlling agents.”
      “You can use desensitising and classical conditioning techniques to teach the dog to love it when people come close to the thing they are guarding.”
sensualising
  1. present participle of sensualise
sensualizing
sensating
  1. present participle of sensate
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