predispose 的 2 个定义
pre·dis·posed, pre·dis·pos·ing.
- to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- to render subject, susceptible, or liable: The evidence predisposes him to public censure.
- to dispose beforehand.
- Archaic. to dispose of beforehand, as in a will, legacy, or the like.
pre·dis·posed, pre·dis·pos·ing.
- to give or furnish a tendency or inclination: an underground job that predisposes to lung infection.
predispose 近义词
influence to believe something
更多predispose例句
- That means this group is predisposed to fear change even more than the average person.
- There’s also no clear link to underlying conditions that might predispose someone to develop long covid.
- While there’s still a lot researchers don’t know, some believe, based on case-reports, that people who are predisposed to mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, are more at risk.
- People who are genetically predisposed to schizophrenia might be more likely to suffer these side-effects, experts point out.
- Scientists used to believe women were predisposed to identifying their children’s cries, while men exhibited worse traits of recognition.
- These are significant changes that will simultaneously predispose them to a more conservative view of the world.
- The expectation that a gun was involved appeared to predispose the cops toward deadly force.
- Why does maternal hip width predispose to cancer in babies born to that mother?
- The use of alcohol is believed by many physicians to predispose a person to tuberculosis.
- The same causes also predispose plants as well as animals, to epidemic attacks of disease.
- But her experience of Montrose and Meath did not predispose her towards the provincial atmosphere.
- As a matter of fact, he will have so disturbed himself as to predispose to insomnia.
- It is evident that certain conditions predispose to headache.