hypersensitize

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verb

To become excessively sensitized.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person hypersensitizes · participle present hypersensitizing · participle past hypersensitized · past 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

Origin

From hypersensitive + -ize.

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Chicago

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