Synonyms for predispose
ˌpri dɪˈspoʊzpre·dis·pose

Princeton's WordNet

1. predisposeverb

   make susceptible

   "This illness predisposes you to gain weight"

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1. predisposeverb

   Synonyms:
   incline, dispose, bias, fit, prepare, make ready

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1. List of paraphrases for "predispose":

   predisposes

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1. Peter Muennig:

   Even relatively low levels of exposure may rob children of IQ points and predispose them to violent behavior later in life.

2. Edgar Cayce:

   Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health.

3. Richard Isaacson:

   Specific traits may increase risk due to a lifetime of behaviors that predispose a person to developing cognitive decline or Alzheimer's disease, or there could be more of a direct biological role related to early disease pathology, neuroticism is specifically one trait that comes to mind, and past meta-analyses have also show this. Rumination and worry is linked to smaller brain volumes.

4. Andrew MacGinnitie:

   It's possible that sucking on a pacifier is correlated with other, more important factors that predispose or protect against allergens.

5. Leana Wen:

   On the other hand, many people may still prioritize not contracting Covid-19 because of the risk of long-haul symptoms, they may also have underlying medical conditions that predispose to more severe outcomes themselves, or they may live with others who are more vulnerable and want to reduce their risk to those around them.