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hypersensitize

hypersensitize verb: to become excessively sensitized.

Verb

hypersensitize (third-person singular simple present hypersensitizes, present participle hypersensitizing, simple past and past participle hypersensitized)

  1. To become excessively sensitized.
    • The pragmatic journalist’s daughter would, and did, explain these “memories” as the work of an imagination hypersensitized by her father’s recent death, but a detail in one letter will not be dismissed. Robert Frobisher mentions a comet-shaped birthmark between his shoulder blade and collarbone.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 120

Forms of hypersensitize

third-person singular presenthypersensitizes
present participlehypersensitizing
past participlehypersensitized
pasthypersensitized

Origin of hypersensitize

From hypersensitive + -ize.

Questions about hypersensitize

What does hypersensitize mean?
Hypersensitize means to become excessively sensitized.
What part of speech is hypersensitize?
Hypersensitize is a verb.
What is the past tense of hypersensitize?
The past tense of hypersensitize is hypersensitized.

Words near hypersensitize in the dictionary

  1. hypersensitively
  2. hypersensitiveness
  3. hypersensitivities
  4. hypersensitivity
  5. hypersensitization
  6. hypersensitize
  7. hypersensitized
  8. hypersensitizes
  9. hypersensitizing
  10. hypersensual
  11. hypersensualism

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