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prone as in: prone to
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The child is prone to emotional outbursts.prone = with a tendency
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The country's economy is completely dependent upon petroleum and thus prone to booms and busts.
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The region is prone to drought.
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Neville was a round-faced and accident-prone boy with the worst memory of anyone Harry had ever met. (source)prone = susceptible (tending to suffer from)
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Then, too, the elephant was prone to colds, particularly during winter. (source)prone = with a tendency
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Gorillas aren't chatty, like humans, prone to gossip and bad jokes. (source)prone = with a tendency (to do something)
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He could still marshal himself, show the face he must have worn each day to harness Achilles, but it cost him, and after he was prone to moods and tempers. (source)
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He was softer, more prone to laugh. (source)prone = with a tendency
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We Afghans are prone to a considerable degree of exaggeration, bachem, and I have heard many men foolishly labeled great. (source)
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Risa has gotten to know an overweight girl prone to tears, a girl wound up from a week of nicotine withdrawal, and a girl who was a ward of the state, just like her—and also just like Risa, an unwitting victim of budget cuts. (source)
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In part because they were new technology, and in part because they were used so heavily, planes were prone to breakdowns. (source)prone = with a tendency (to do something)
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Dr. Reynolds said if we had been boil-prone things would have been different, but we doubted it. (source)prone = susceptible (tending to suffer from)
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Moreover, he an exceptionally private man, not someone prone to chatting with random American professors unless there were an important reason. (source)prone = with a tendency
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The advance guard which came down the street from the railroad station consisted of a number of Jeeps, being driven with a certain restraint, their gyration-prone wheels inactive on these old ways which offered nothing bumpier than a few cobblestones. (source)prone = with a tendency (to do something)
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She was fond of eating vegetables but people said the key was to have as many calories stashed away as possible, and so foods like vegetables, which were bulky for the amount of energy they could provide, and also prone to spoilage, were less useful. (source)
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prone as in: prone position
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The victim was found prone on the floor.
prone = lying face down
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80% of children who died of sudden infant death syndrome had been lying in a prone position.prone = face down
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In the first room he saw a thin rumpled figure lying prone on a sofa: Dana's father, holding what appeared to be an ice pack to his forehead. (source)
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Whatever T.J.'s reply, it obviously was not what Kaleb Wallace wanted to hear, for he pulled his leg back and kicked T.J.'s swollen stomach with such force that T.J. emitted a cry of awful pain and fell prone upon the ground. (source)prone = lying face downward
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Russell and Piper lie prone at the hole. (source)prone = lying face downward
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But his family labored under a plainness so virulent that the dullness of his wife and children outshone even their proneness to illness, which was remarkable.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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He's probably prone; we don't want to step over him. (source)
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But no one paid attention when Ross tried unsuccessfully to explain his vote, and denounced the falsehoods of Ben Butler's investigating committee, recalling that the General's "well known grovelling instincts and proneness to slime and uncleanness" had led "the public to insult the brute creation by dubbing him 'the beast.'† (source)
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He waited there, awkwardly prone, while a telephone began ringing over the small speaker. (source)
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In Hester Prynne's instance, however, as not unfrequently in other cases, her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform, but without undergoing that gripe about the neck and confinement of the head, the proneness to which was the most devilish characteristic of this ugly engine.† (source)
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A minute later the square was empty, only the boy remained, prone where he had fallen, quite still. (source)
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A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.† (source)
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The window went up, a maid-servant's discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr's remains! (source)
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In the affair of love, which, out of strict conformity with the Stoic philosophy, we shall here treat as a disease, this proneness to relapse is no less conspicuous.† (source)
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