SENSITISATION

sensitizing, sensitising, sensitization, sensitisation

(noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections

sensitization, sensitisation

(noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations)

sensitization, sensitisation

(noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

sensitisation (countable and uncountable, plural sensitisations)

(British spelling) Alternative spelling of sensitization

Source: Wiktionary



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4 April 2025

GUILLOTINE

(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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