proneprone /prəʊn $ proʊn/ ●●○ adjective 
Some plants are very prone to disease.prone to do something Kids are all prone to eat junk food.accident-prone/injury-prone etc He’s always been accident-prone.2formal lying down with the front of your body facing down SYN prostrate: His eyes shifted to the prone body on the floor.—proneness noun [uncountable]—prone adverb: Jack lay prone on his bed.
WORD ORIGINprone
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin pronusEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Many of the injured were lying prone on the floor.
- 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.
Longman Language Activatorwhen someone is often ill
a sickly child is often ill: · He was a sickly child with a bad chest and a permanent cough.· Louise, who was often sickly, couldn't join in the other children's games.
formal unhealthy and weak and likely to become ill easily: · Clare was more active than her brother, who had always been a delicate child.· Mr Humphreys' wife was delicate - the doctor was called in once or twice a week.
fairly ill all the time or over a long period of time, and generally not strong and healthy: · When he left Trinidad he was already over 60, frail, and in poor health.
formal not healthy or strong, especially because of old age: · She lives with her grandmother who is elderly and infirm.the infirm (=people who are infirm): · The "Meals on Wheels' service delivers food to the old and infirm.
likely to become ill or to get a particular illness: · As a child she had always been prone to allergies.· The disease had left her weak and prone to all kinds of infections.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He’s always been accident-prone.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1likely to do something or suffer from something, especially something bad or harmfulprone to He’s always been accident-prone. (=someone often exaggerates)· At that age, children are prone to exaggeration.
(=often get injuries)· She was rather prone to injury and often missed matches as a result.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
· 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.
Some plants are very prone to disease.prone to do something Kids are all prone to eat junk food.accident-prone/injury-prone etc He’s always been accident-prone.2formal lying down with the front of your body facing down SYN prostrate: His eyes shifted to the prone body on the floor.—proneness noun [uncountable]—prone adverb: Jack lay prone on his bed.