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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hypersensitize . - adjective Made
hypersensitive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)
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Examples
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And there are frequencies that I find that I am hypersensitized to, and I think people normally are.
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Many people have become sensitized -- even hypersensitized -- to issues of racism in this campaign, and words and attitudes are being examined and questioned.
Carlotta Cooper: Why Younger Women Aren't Supporting Hillary 2008
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ROBERTS: A lightning rod to be sure, one whose every statement is hypersensitized.
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My guess is that this represents a hypersensitized response to climate, so that part of the blade is climate signal, but part of it is a spurious result of a non-climatic amplifier of climatic signal.
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People have to remember that police everywhere are hypersensitized to shoot anytime they think there is danger.
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When a person has any kind of injury - a broken shin, for example, or a sunburn - the pain system becomes hypersensitized, firing up in response to normally painless sensations induced by, for instance, walking or a gentle massage.
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You can get hypersensitized film that reduces exposure time.
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You can get hypersensitized film that reduces exposure time.
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You can get hypersensitized film that reduces exposure time.
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You can get hypersensitized film that reduces exposure time.
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