Antonyms for predispose

Grammar : Verb

Spell : pree-di-spohz

Phonetic Transcription : ˌpri dɪˈspoʊz

Definition of predispose

Origin : 1640s, "to put into a certain frame of mind," perhaps a back-formation from predisposition. Related: Predisposed; predisposing.

verb influence to believe something

Example sentences :

Your attentions flatter her, and predispose her to capitulate.
Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini

Lemm's external appearance did not predispose one in his favour.
Extract from : « A Nobleman's Nest » by Ivan Turgenieff

For this reason we believe that scurvy may predispose to frostbite.
Extract from : « Scurvy Past and Present » by Alfred Fabian Hess

And among women, it is only arid souls whom it does not predispose to love.
Extract from : « The Red and the Black » by Stendhal

As a matter of fact, he will have so disturbed himself as to predispose to insomnia.
Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by James J. Walsh

This arrangement seems to predispose to difficulties of nutrition.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 » by Various

There is nothing that will predispose him to sunstroke as much as spirits.
Extract from : « The Inhabitants of the Philippines » by Frederic H. Sawyer

Why it is, in the Insecta, that islands should predispose to an apterous state more than continents, it is not easy to speculate.
Extract from : « On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera » by Thomas Vernon Wollaston

Fertilizers rich in nitrogen may stimulate the late growth and predispose the tree to killing back.
Extract from : « Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting » by Northern Nut Growers Association

The same causes also predispose plants as well as animals, to epidemic attacks of disease.
Extract from : « Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease » by John Grove

Synonyms for predispose

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