adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
accident prone
be prone to injury (= often get injuries )
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She was rather prone to injury and often missed matches as a result.
sb is prone to exaggeration (= sb often exaggerates )
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At that age, children are prone to exaggeration.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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The Secretary of State is also prone to make pronouncements which can be highly relevant, especially on appeal.
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Double-flowered petunias are also prone to rotting in wet summers.
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He is also prone to jump to conclusions.
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The Tube is also prone to suffer from condensation due to its shape.
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In a sense this is true. but on closer analysis they are also prone to gaps and inconsistencies.
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You're also prone to dredging up the wounding words and cutting critiques others have directed at you recently.
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During this time it is treated as prone , and ignores all attacks.
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The registration procedure is as prone to human error as any other system of recording.
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Piquantly enough, Foodie-ism is as prone to the whims and shifts of favour as the fashion industry itself.
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Characters looking into the mirror count as prone if attacked.
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A character who is held fast can not move or fight, and is treated as prone .
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The clutching hands do not move, and are themselves treated as prone .
especially
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Older women are especially prone to ageist assumptions and comments.
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Lawyers and presidents appear especially prone to getting trapped in extramarital affairs these days, at least in the view of Hollywood.
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Recognition of cursive handwriting is especially prone to errors due to the difficulty of determining the correct segmentation of a word.
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Elderly patients are especially prone to these side effects.
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They were especially prone to liver problems, mostly seen as enlargements and sometimes as whitish spots.
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College students are now especially prone to develop the disease for some of the same reasons.
less
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Heel of the palm: Fast and less prone to injury than a punch.
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McCain imagines that if they sit around watching more wholesome television, they will be less prone to delinquency.
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The company says this makes it less prone t o fractures.
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In comparison to legislatures, the executive structure tends to be more streamlined and less prone to stalemate and inaction.
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Computers are reliable and less prone to error provided they are instructed or programmed appropriately and correctly.
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Women are less prone to disease and accidents.
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Intel favours using cash rather than stock as such deals are less prone to the stock market volatility.
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For example, birds have higher maximum lifespans than mammals and are less prone to death in the wild.
more
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Compared with most other advanced countries, you die earlier and are more prone to disability in the land of the free.
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They are also more prone to profess unhappiness than divorced women.
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The replacement of surface skin cells slows down, and they tend to become more prone to environmental damage.
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Two university psychology professors say they have scientific evidence that southerners are more prone to violence than northerners.
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Every believer is prone to doubt, but some are more prone to one kind and some to another.
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As the stress level goes up or as anxiety increases, one is more prone to sleeplessness.
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Malnourished anorexic patients are more prone to side-effects and less responsive to medication than are other patients with depression.
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And journalism, which is more prone to collective examination of conscience than most professions, is already focusing on these problems.
most
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External designs are easiest to work on but most prone to interference from mud and water.
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The men who were most prone to carry extra weight on their bellies were also at higher cataract risk.
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Boys between eight and 10 are most prone to self-harm.
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I worry that the necessary measures may radicalise the working class which is, of course, the sector most prone to unemployment.
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It is the blue-eyed white cats that are most prone to deafness.
particularly
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In houses particularly prone to condensation, you can cover walls with a thin layer of polystyrene before applying wallpaper.
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I have found that fish fry are particularly prone to tubifex-related bacterial attack.
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Fancy goldfish seem to be particularly prone to swimbladder disease.
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Flat ground and the slopes of the Marne valley are particularly prone to frost.
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Haulage is particularly prone to cash flow problems.
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In the previous chapter it was pointed out that testimony in cattle-stealing cases was particularly prone to stereotyped ritual delivery.
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They are therefore particularly prone to react to extra stress either at home or while using the Department's services.
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Castings and forgings are particularly prone to impact damage from hard objects.
too
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Where she was concerned, he was too prone to condemn.
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And the world is all too prone to assuming that a scientific solution can work a miracle.
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By no means the next Nirvana as too prone to cuteness.
very
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He is very prone to accidents.
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I was very prone to them at the time, mainly because I was undertaking only light and sometimes very spasmodic training.
■ NOUN
body
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Agnes stared at the prone body .
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Under his prone body the roof felt hot.
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But he did, as he played the beam over her prone body .
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He bestrode me like some stalwart saint of old, defending my prone body with buckler and flaming sword.
position
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The patient was treated in prone position without narcosis.
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Police should never leave or transport a sprayed suspect in a prone position because death may result from positional asphyxiation.
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All the patients were treated in the prone position , with the shock waves entering from the ventral side.
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It also banned the practice of transporting pepper-sprayed suspects in a prone position , saying the practice could contribute to suffocation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many of the injured were lying prone on the floor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Flat ground and the slopes of the Marne valley are particularly prone to frost.
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I have found that fish fry are particularly prone to tubifex-related bacterial attack.
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In houses particularly prone to condensation, you can cover walls with a thin layer of polystyrene before applying wallpaper.
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It was very delicate and prone to break down.
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The Tennessee and Red rivers were prone to destructive floods, as was the Columbia-as were many rivers throughout the country.
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They tend to get disorganized as the mania increases, and even more prone to poor judgment.
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Track 13 in front was out of commission, with its people on the ground, prone , in firing positions.