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predispose Growing up in a house full of sisters had predisposed her to find her friendships with other women. ˌpridɪˈspoʊz

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(1) To influence in advance in order to create a particular attitude. (2) To make one more likely to develop a particular disease or physical condition. Predispose usually means putting someone in a frame of mind to be willing to do something. So a longtime belief in the essential goodness of people, for example, will predispose us to trust a stranger. Teachers know that coming from a stable family generally predisposes children to learn. And viewing television violence for years may leave young people with a predisposition to accept real violence as normal. The medical sense of the word is similar. Thus, a person's genes may predispose her to diabetes or arthritis, and malnutrition over a long period can predispose you to all kinds of infections

word	predispose
definition	(1) To influence in advance in order to create a particular attitude. (2) To make one more likely to develop a particular disease or physical condition.
eg_sentence	Growing up in a house full of sisters had predisposed her to find her friendships with other women.
explanation	Predispose usually means putting someone in a frame of mind to be willing to do something. So a longtime belief in the essential goodness of people, for example, will predispose us to trust a stranger. Teachers know that coming from a stable family generally predisposes children to learn. And viewing television violence for years may leave young people with a predisposition to accept real violence as normal. The medical sense of the word is similar. Thus, a person's genes may predispose her to diabetes or arthritis, and malnutrition over a long period can predispose you to all kinds of infections
IPA	ˌpridɪˈspoʊz

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