hypersensitize

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hypersensitize

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From hypersensitive + -ize.

verb hypersensitizes · hypersensitizing · 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.

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@misc{hypersensitize_2026,
  title = {hypersensitize},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hypersensitize},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}