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pre‧dis‧pose
[transitive]
[transitive]1 to make someone more likely to suffer from a particular health problem
2 to make someone more likely to behave or think in a particular way
predispose somebody to something Parents who smoke predispose children to smoking.
Parents who smoke predispose children to smoking. —predisposed adjective: genetically predisposed to gain weight
genetically predisposed to gain weight