indispose
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make ill, especially slightly.
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to put out of the proper condition for something; make unfit.
The long tennis match indisposed me for any further physical activity that day.
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to render averse or unwilling; disincline.
His anger indisposed him from helping.
verb
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to make unwilling or opposed; disincline
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to cause to feel ill
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to make unfit (for something or to do something)
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of indispose
First recorded in 1650–60; back formation from indisposed
Example Sentences
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We are now," returned the other, "quartered among friends, to whom we ought to be not only punctual but liberal, lest we indispose them to the service.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane
Nor ought the humble condition of the oppressed to indispose him to grant them a hearing; for the doctrine they professed was not their own, but that of the Almighty himself.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn
Such a proceeding would, he was convinced, by no means disincline others in different circumstances to accept hereditary titles, nor indispose the ministry to confer them.
From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Yonge, Charles Duke
In fact, the anathema remained inefficacious within and without.313 In vain did the pope employ the Jesuits to raise or indispose the European courts against the Venetians.
From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois
"What circumstances can possibly indispose you to give your law business to Mr. Darch?"
From Armadale by Collins, Wilkie
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