Thesaurus / predispose
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We don’t know if those six cases had some other conditions that would have predisposed them to having blood clots like this.
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This narrative of how good movies are made is so deeply ingrained in our culture that it’s been incredibly hard to displace, even in an era when we’re more predisposed to examine the toxicity inherent to this method of moviemaking.
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On the flip side, someone who is not predisposed may experience stress but not develop depression, he notes.
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At just the age when they are biologically predisposed to seek independence from their families, teens have been trapped at home.
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The use of alcohol is believed by many physicians to predispose a person to tuberculosis.
A CIVIC BIOLOGYGEORGE WILLIAM HUNTER
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.
LOLA MONTEZEDMUND B. D'AUVERGNE
As a matter of fact, he will have so disturbed himself as to predispose to insomnia.
PSYCHOTHERAPYJAMES J. WALSH
It is evident that certain conditions predispose to headache.
PSYCHOTHERAPYJAMES J. WALSH
Woman's confined life and nerve-distracting habits predispose her to revery, meditation, and morbid habits of mind and feeling.
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WORDS RELATED TO PREDISPOSE
- actuate
- arouse
- bring
- cause
- dispose
- draw
- drive
- egg on
- excite
- fire
- galvanize
- give incentive
- goad
- goose
- impel
- incite
- incline
- induce
- innervate
- innerve
- inspire
- inspirit
- lead
- move
- persuade
- pique
- predetermine
- predispose
- prevail upon
- prompt
- propel
- provoke
- quicken
- rouse
- set afoot
- set astir
- sound
- spark
- spur
- suggest
- sway
- touch off
- trigger
- whet
- bias
- brainwash
- carry
- conduct
- control
- crack
- direct
- dispose
- dominate
- get
- govern
- guide
- hold sway over
- hook
- impact on
- impress
- incline
- induce
- inspire
- lead by the nose
- manage
- move
- overrule
- persuade
- predispose
- prevail on
- put across
- reign
- rule
- rule over
- sell
- soften up
- strike
- suck in
- touch
- turn one's head
- twist one's arm
- whitewash
- win over
- work on
- bias
- brainwash
- carry
- conduct
- control
- crack
- direct
- dispose
- dominate
- get
- govern
- guide
- hold sway over
- hook
- impact on
- impress
- incline
- induce
- inspire
- lead by the nose
- manage
- move
- overrule
- persuade
- predispose
- prevail on
- put across
- reign
- rule
- rule over
- sell
- soften up
- strike
- suck in
- touch
- turn one's head
- twist one's arm
- whitewash
- win over
- work on
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