prone
/prəʊn/ adjectiveDefinition
be prone to sth/doing sth › to often do something or suffer from something, especially something bad: I'm prone to headaches. He's prone to forgetting things.
accident-/injury-, etc prone › often having accidents/injuries, etc → See also accident-prone
(Definition of prone adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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