PREDISPOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predispose mean? 

• PREDISPOSE (verb)
  The verb PREDISPOSE has 1 sense:

1. make susceptible

  Familiarity information: PREDISPOSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDISPOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they predispose    ... he / she / it predisposes   
Past simple: predisposed   
Past participle: predisposed   
-ing form: predisposing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make susceptible

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

This illness predisposes you to gain weight

Hypernyms (to "predispose" is one way to...):

dispose; incline (make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

predisposition (an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way)

 Context examples 

Mutations in the BRCA2 gene predispose males to breast cancer.

(BRCA2 Gene Mutation, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in the BRCA1 gene predispose individuals to breast and ovarian cancers.

(BRCA1 Gene Mutation, NCI Thesaurus)

There was, indeed, so deep a blush over Fanny's face at that moment as might warrant strong suspicion in a predisposed mind.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A gene alteration that causes or predisposes an individual to a specific disease.

(Disease-causing Mutation, NCI Dictionary)

Any DNA sequence alteration process occurring in a proto-oncogene, resulting in loss of regulation of the gene product, and predisposing the cell to neoplastic transformation.

(Oncogene Activation Process, NCI Thesaurus)

In its severe forms, this disorder predisposes to hemolytic anemia.

(Elliptocytosis, NICHD)

The results suggest that aging may not just predispose an individual to degeneration, as we thought.

(NIH scientists search for the clocks behind aging brain disorders, National Institutes of Health)

Like most rabbit breeds, the California rabbit is predisposed to developing cancer, especially uterine adenocarcinoma as well as lymphomas, sarcomas, and other carcinomas.

(California Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)

The study suggests that a less common version of the BDNF gene may predispose people to obesity by producing lower levels of BDNF protein, a regulator of appetite, in the brain.

(Researchers link single gene variation to obesity, NIH)

Deficiencies of C3 and of the classical activating pathway components: C1, C4, C2 also predispose to immune complex disease.

(Complement Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)