predisposed 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.
predisposed 近义词
willing, inclined
更多predisposed例句
- It’s possible in cases of covid-related reactions, Stukus said, that the virus is “unmasking somebody who is predisposed to have hives and swelling.”
- Research has shown genes may predispose not only our height, eye color, or weight, but also our vulnerability to mental ill-health, longevity, intelligence, and impulsivity.
- Yes, we’re each predisposed to do better in some events than others, and muscle fibers play a role.
- If a tiny movement delay is enough to conjure up spirits, perhaps our brains are predisposed at some deep level to imagine ghosts are walking among us.
- The harder question is what predisposes some runners more than others to this kind of damage.
- Now, you have increased passage of gluten, and if you are genetically predisposed, you can develop celiac or gluten-intolerance.
- Sometime during the flood, it seems, God came to peace with the idea that his creation was predisposed toward evil.
- Humans are biologically predisposed to falling in love, naturally selected to bend towards that most intense social emotion.
- Millennials, a generation shaped by GOP failure, are predisposed to vote Democratic.
- But for the mind already planning such an act, or predisposed to such desires, the videogame provides a way for them to train.
- Some slight injury in the abdomen, as from a blow or a kick, may precipitate an attack in predisposed individuals.
- Predisposed by sympathy, he was soon drawn into the current of excitement and enthusiasm that was surging around him.
- Another indication was that he found himself, in spite of such a break in the chain, distinctly predisposed to Nanda.
- The renewed spectacle of his own wound had predisposed Robert to feel a great and tearful sympathy for himself.
- There was another reflection also which mingled with these melancholy thoughts, and predisposed him to receive them.