prone

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The Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, added: "Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick seems to be increasingly accident-prone which is potentially dangerous given the serious responsibilities of his role."

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  1. adjective Lying with the front or face downward.
  2. adjective Having a tendency; inclined: paper that is prone to yellowing; children who are prone to mischief.
  3. adverb In a prone manner: The patient was lying prone on the bed.

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  • Nora was accident-prone, and Tenneth had already hauled her partner out of the lake and prevented her from falling into the crevices and holes that pitted the hills around the Catherine Caves. —  Dragons Dawn
  • Here's a little car that's nearly extinct in rust-prone areas. —  Jalopnik
  • Pay particular attention to your callus-prone areas.
  • Turkey includes one of the more earthquake-prone areas of the world.
  • Our current system is far more complex; far more black swan prone, and the cascade has most likely merely begun. —  BusinessWeek.com --
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  1. Middle English, inclined, disposed, from Latin prōnus, leaning forward; see per1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French prone = Spanish Portuguese Italian prono, from Latin pronus, bent, leaning forward, from pro, forward: see pro-.
 

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