Usually means: Incline someone towards a specific condition.
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  1. predispose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. predispose: Merriam-Webster
  3. predispose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. predispose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. predispose: Collins English Dictionary
  6. predispose: Vocabulary.com
  7. predispose: Wordnik
  8. predispose: Wiktionary
  9. predispose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. predispose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. predispose: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. predispose: Dictionary.com
  13. predispose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Predispose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. predispose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. predispose: Rhymezone
  17. Predispose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. predispose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. predispose: FreeDictionary.org
  20. predispose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. predispose: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. predispose: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. predispose: Legal dictionary

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. predispose: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Predispose: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. predispose: Medical dictionary
  5. Predispose: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. predispose: Idioms

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verb:  To make someone susceptible to something (such as a disease).
verb:  To make someone inclined to something in advance; to influence.

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