predispose
pree di spohz
- v make susceptible
This illness predisposes you to gain weight
- In addition, athletes lack excess body fat, which can predispose people to diabetes.
- Now the same team has come up with evidence that bolsters its earlier findings and supports the theory that "gay genes" may predispose some men to seek partners of the same sex.
- In 1993, Collins' trailblazing work identifying genetic defects that predispose to cystic fibrosis and other diseases led to his succeeding double-helix discoverer James Watson as .