transcription, транскрипция: [ proʊn ]
1.
To be prone to something, usually something bad, means to have a tendency to be affected by it or to do it.
For all her experience, she was still prone to nerves...
People with fair skin who sunburn easily are very prone to develop skin cancer.
ADJ : v-link ADJ , ADJ to n , ADJ to-inf
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-prone combines with nouns to make adjectives that describe people who are frequently affected by something bad.
...the most injury-prone rider on the circuit.
COMB in ADJ
see also accident prone
2.
If you are lying prone , you are lying on your front. ( FORMAL )
Bob slid from his chair and lay prone on the floor...
≠ supine
ADJ : ADJ after v , ADJ n