What part of speech is sensitizing?

Sensitizing can be categorized as a verb, an adjective and a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. sensitizing is a verb, gerund of sensitize (infinitive).
  • 2. sensitizing is a noun, singular of sensitizings.
  • 3. sensitizing is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more sensitizing
    most sensitizing
  • Positive: sensitizing 
  • Comparative: more sensitizing
  • Superlative: most sensitizing

What does sensitizing mean?

Definitions

Adjective

sensitizing - making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli

Verb

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

Noun

sensitizing - rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections

Examples of sensitizing

#   Sentence  
1. verb Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen.
2. verb Sensitize the photographic film.
Sentence  
verb
Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen.
Sensitize the photographic film.

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