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photosensitizing

photosensitizing is the present participle and gerund of photosensitize.

Meaning of photosensitize

Verb

photosensitize (third-person singular simple present photosensitizes, present participle photosensitizing, simple past and past participle photosensitized)

  1. (transitive) to make something photosensitive

Adjective

photosensitizing (comparative more photosensitizing, superlative most photosensitizing)

  1. That causes photosensitization

Forms of photosensitizing

comparativemore photosensitizing
superlativemost photosensitizing

Origin of photosensitizing

From photo- + sensitizing.

Questions about photosensitizing

What does photosensitizing mean?
Photosensitizing means that causes photosensitization.
What is photosensitizing the present participle and gerund of?
Photosensitizing is the present participle and gerund of photosensitize.
What part of speech is photosensitizing?
Photosensitizing is an adjective.

Words near photosensitizing in the dictionary

  1. photosensitize
  2. photosensitized
  3. photosensitizer
  4. photosensitizers
  5. photosensitizes
  6. photosensitizing
  7. photosensor
  8. photosensors
  9. photosensory
  10. photosequence
  11. photosequences

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Adapted from Wiktionary: photosensitizing (page history and authors); photosensitize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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