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hypersensitizing

hypersensitizing is the present participle and gerund of hypersensitize.

Meaning of hypersensitize

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

Adjective

hypersensitizing (comparative more hypersensitizing, superlative most hypersensitizing)

  1. That hypersensitizes.

Forms of hypersensitizing

comparativemore hypersensitizing
superlativemost hypersensitizing

Questions about hypersensitizing

What does hypersensitizing mean?
Hypersensitizing means that hypersensitizes.
What is hypersensitizing the present participle and gerund of?
Hypersensitizing is the present participle and gerund of hypersensitize.
What part of speech is hypersensitizing?
Hypersensitizing is an adjective.

Words near hypersensitizing in the dictionary

  1. hypersensitivity
  2. hypersensitization
  3. hypersensitize
  4. hypersensitized
  5. hypersensitizes
  6. hypersensitizing
  7. hypersensual
  8. hypersensualism
  9. hypersensuality
  10. hypersensually
  11. hypersensuous

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