proneadjective
uk/prəʊn/us/proʊn/prone adjective (TENDING)
be prone to sth/do sth
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- This stretch of road is prone to foggy patches.
- Our window boxes were prone to vandalism.
- He is rather prone to making tactless remarks.
C2 likely to suffer from an illness or show a particular negative characteristic:
I've always been prone to headaches.
He was prone to depression even as a teenager.
She's prone to exaggerate, that's for sure.
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Being & falling ill
- ail
- be green around the gills idiom
- be laid up idiom
- be out of sorts idiom
- break
- bring
- burned out
- burnt out
- catch your death of cold idiom
- declension
- food
- KO
- pick sth up
- pneumonia
- relapse
- shiver
- shivery
- sicken
- strike
- upset
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prone adjective (LYING DOWN)
formal lying face down:
The photograph showed a man lying prone on the pavement, a puddle of blood around his head.
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Reclining
- fallen
- full-length
- lain
- lay
- lean
- lean (sth) against/on sth
- lie around
- lounge
- lounge around (sth)
- recline
- recumbent
- repose
- sink
- sit
- spreadeagled
- stretch
- stretch (yourself) out
- sup
- supinate
- supination
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