predispose

Related to predispose: imposed

predispose (someone or something) to (something)

1. To make someone or something more inclined to some action in advance. Often used in passive constructions. Harvard's reputation for its law program predisposed him to go there after high school. I know Ruth is predisposed to do whatever her father suggests due to her overwhelming sense of loyalty to him.
2. To make someone or something more susceptible or liable to something. Often used in passive constructions. It's your mother's father who predisposes you to baldness, not your own father. My genetics predispose me to heart disease, so I take every precaution I can to avoid it. The economy was already predisposed to collapse due to the sudden removal of many regulations that kept it in balance.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

predispose someone or something to(ward) something

to make someone or something susceptible to something. Your comments will not predispose me toward a favorable treatment of your case. Do you think that this weather will predispose me to catching a cold?
See also: predispose
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • perceive
  • perceive (someone or something) as (something)
  • perceive as
  • preclude
  • preclude (someone or something) from (something)
  • preclude from
  • starve (someone or something) of (something)
  • starve of
  • sandwich (someone or something) between (someone or something else)
  • sandwich between
References in periodicals archive
Biome hanics: Certain structural abnormalities and biomechanical errors can predispose a runner to Achilles tendinitis and rupture.
Achilles tendon rupture
A novel result of these studies was that genes identified as contributors to drinking behavior in the tested populations were not the same as genes found to predispose to alcohol dependence.
Genes that drive people to drink identified
Recurrent parotid insufflation can predispose the patient to recurrent parotitis and sialectasis.
Pneumoparotid: A case report and review of its pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management
That in turn might predispose a person to develop diabetes, she speculates.
Gene variant boosts diabetes risk
Variations in the gene may predispose cats to weight problems, she suggests.
Mutations produce black house cats, jaguars. (Feline Finding)
Rather, women with circulatory defects that predispose their blood vessels to become blocked face an elevated risk for both fetal loss and heart disease, the researchers hypothesize.--B.H.
Miscarriages foretell heart trouble. (Epidemiology)
The work represents "a good first step" toward finding human gene variations that predispose people to stomach cancer, says Karen M.
Gene variants implicated in stomach cancer. (Predisposed to Trouble)
Summary: Washington D.C [U.S.A], May 17 (ANI): Fainting is not just caused by external factors, according to a recent study, which has identified the first gene that predisposes people to faint.
Genes responsible for fainting identified
Men from India are more likely than those in other large ethnic groups to have a condition that predisposes them to type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes, a U.S.
Indian men are prone to insulin resistance
(1) These authors hypothesize that the location of these primary tumors predisposes these patients to concentric scar formation.
Severe distal esophageal stricture
Scientists at deCODE have reportedly isolated a gene which in one form predisposes to obesity and in another form predisposes to thinness.
deCODE to receive milestone payment for discovery of obesity gene
How much of a leap is it to classify "persistent drug abusers" as suffering from a "mental abnormality" that predisposes them to commit "future acts of dangerousness"?
Shades of the Gulag
The disease is bilateral in 50% of cases, which suggests that some constitutional or systemic factor predisposes to its development.
Chronic external otitis
When the presence of a concha bullosa predisposes a patient to occlusion of the ostiomeatal complex and subsequent sinus disease, surgery might be indicated.
Endoscopic view of a concha bullosa of the middle turbinate
This malignancy is associated with a mutation that leads to an inactivation of a tumor suppressor gene located on the long arm of chromosome 13 [5.6] A single chromosome defect predisposes the patient to retinoblastoma, but when a "second hit" affects the other allele, the suppressive function of the gene is lost.
Second malignant neoplasms of the head and neck in survivors of retinoblastoma