What is the meaning of sensitised?

Cause to sense; make sensitive.
- usage: "She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society"; "My tongue became sensitized to good wine"
- synonyms: sensitize, sensitise
Make sensitive to a drug or allergen.
- usage: "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen"
- synonyms: sensitize, sensitise
Make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion.
- usage: "sensitize the photographic film"
- synonyms: sensitize, sensitise
Make sensitive or aware.
- usage: "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs"
- synonyms: sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise

Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor. )
- usage: "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen"
- synonyms: allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, hypersensitised, sensitized, supersensitive, supersensitized, supersensitised

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