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

Prone \Prone\, a. [L. pronus, akin to Gr. ?, ?, Skr. pravana sloping, inclined, and also to L. pro forward, for. See Pro-.]

  1. Bending forward; inclined; not erect.

    Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone.
    --Milton.

  2. Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine.

    Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone.
    --Byron.

  3. Headlong; running downward or headlong. ``Down thither prone in flight.''
    --Milton.

  4. Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.

    Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land.
    --Blackmore.

  5. Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to. ``Prone to mischief.''
    --Shak.

    Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy.
    --Landor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prone

c.1400, "naturally inclined to something, apt, liable," from Latin pronus "bent forward, leaning forward, bent over," figuratively "inclined to, disposed," perhaps from adverbial form of pro- "before, for, instead of" (see pro-) + ending as in infernus, externus. Meaning "lying face-down" is first recorded 1570s. Literal and figurative senses both were in Latin; figurative is older in English. Related: Proneness.

Wiktionary
prone

a. 1 Lying face downward; prostrate.(w Prone position Wp) 2 Having a downward inclination or slope. 3 shooting from a lying down position. 4 predisposed, liable, inclined.

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WordNet
prone

  1. adj. lying face downward [syn: prostrate]

  2. having a tendency (to); often used in combination; "a child prone to mischief"; "failure-prone"

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Usage examples of "prone".

Kathy thought of celebrity as a subtle fluid, a universal element, like the phlogiston of the ancients, something spread evenly at creation through all the universe, but prone now to accrete, under specific conditions, around certain individuals and their careers.

The farmer, housewife, banker, merchant and laborer seem to be equally prone to the affliction and all who suffer have a great number of days rendered uncomfortable and unhappy by the presence of this most unpleasant affection.

Ryan was leaping up the first flight, booting down on the prone body of the first man and clutching at the corner pole of the banister, yanking himself up and around and grabbing the third man as he tottered forward on the rebound from the wall.

A glint of silver caught her attention, and Tia realized Brok had raised the sharp, dangerous Widowmaker high above her prone form.

Kingman Markland stretched a foot from his prone position and kicked at a rusting canteen.

Gately was kind of befogged and prone to misprision for well into his first year clean.

Longtusk and a few others, mastodonts in musth and so prone to irritability.

I wanted to warn him that Alice Bashford was not an ordinary widow, who vexes officers of trust companies with foolish questions and is prone to overdraw her account, so I left when he did.

Guys lay prone on the asphalt as the rest of the peloton bore down on them, and more riders fell.

For instance, one study has shown that depression increases platelet aggregation, which means that being depressed may make you more prone to arterial clotting and arterial aging.

Presley climbed to the summit of one of the hills--the highest-- that rose out of the canyon, from the crest of which he could see for thirty, fifty, sixty miles down the valley, and, filling his pipe, smoked lazily for upwards of an hour, his head empty of thought, allowing himself to succumb to a pleasant, gentle inanition, a little drowsy comfortable in his place, prone upon the ground, warmed just enough by such sunlight as filtered through the live-oaks, soothed by the good tobacco and the prolonged murmur of the spring and creek.

He seemed quite positive, and that precise diction of his, that prosecutorial inflection he was prone to, made arguing with him an unappealing prospect.

That was the beauty of the Beauty, as Cicero was prone to refer to Clodius, punning on his nickname.

The women on board had all undergone a little cellular reprofiling procedure to make suction tube use more convenient and less prone to slippage.

The prone forms of two Corthronos could be seen in front of sigil, their skinless bodies shining wetly in the crimson light.