prone

/prəʊn/ adjective

Translation

be prone to sth/doing sth › to often do something or suffer from something, especially something bad

bir şeye/bir şeyi yapmaya duyarlı/eğilimli/yatkın olmak; kolay maruz kalabilmek

I'm prone to headaches. He's prone to forgetting things.575

accident-/injury-, etc prone › often having accidents/injuries, etc

kazaya/yaralanmaya maruz kalmak/eğilimli olmak

→ See also accident-prone1137

(Definition of prone adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad

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