vulnerable
open to attack
TRANSLATION
vulnerable = angreifbar, für etwas anfällig sein --- GOOGLE INDEX vulnerable: approximately 42,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
A terrorism expert warns that UK airports are still VULNERABLE, one year on from the attack on Glasgow Airport...
(BBC News)
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"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be VULNERABLE. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.’’
(Madeleine L'Engle, American author)
(BBC News)
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"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be VULNERABLE. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.’’
(Madeleine L'Engle, American author)
Did you
know?
vulnerable
adjective
- able to be easily physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt, influenced or attacked
noun
vulnerability
(Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
1605, from the Lower Latin vulnerabilis "wounding," from Latin vulnerare "to wound," from vulnus (gen. vulneris) "wound," perhaps related to vellere "pluck, to tear." (Online Etymology Dictionary)
The great movie director Alfred Hitchcock was a master at showing how vulnerable human beings can be. In his most famous scene from the 1960 classic Psycho, actress Janet Leigh is attacked with a knife while taking a shower. She even stopped taking showers after the movie. "And not because of the shooting of it," she later explained. "It was watching it. It never occurred to me how truly vulnerable we are. But that's what Hitchcock did. A shower. A bird. All these things that are absolutely ordinary, he made extraordinary."
Shortly after the film's release, Hitchcock received a letter from a man complaining that, since she had seen the movie, his wife had been terrified to shower or bathe. What remedy, he wondered, could the director suggest. "Sir," Hitchcock replied, "have you ever considered sending your wife to the dry cleaners?''
(source: www.anecdotes.com)
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SYNONYMS
(vulnerable)
accessible, assailable, defenceless, exposed, liable, naked, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, prone to, ready, sensitive, sitting duck, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, weak, wide open
(vulnerability)
exposure, liability, openness, susceptibility
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"In today's economic climate companies are especially vulnerable to attack by stronger competitors."
adjective
- able to be easily physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt, influenced or attacked
noun
vulnerability
(Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
1605, from the Lower Latin vulnerabilis "wounding," from Latin vulnerare "to wound," from vulnus (gen. vulneris) "wound," perhaps related to vellere "pluck, to tear." (Online Etymology Dictionary)
The great movie director Alfred Hitchcock was a master at showing how vulnerable human beings can be. In his most famous scene from the 1960 classic Psycho, actress Janet Leigh is attacked with a knife while taking a shower. She even stopped taking showers after the movie. "And not because of the shooting of it," she later explained. "It was watching it. It never occurred to me how truly vulnerable we are. But that's what Hitchcock did. A shower. A bird. All these things that are absolutely ordinary, he made extraordinary."
Shortly after the film's release, Hitchcock received a letter from a man complaining that, since she had seen the movie, his wife had been terrified to shower or bathe. What remedy, he wondered, could the director suggest. "Sir," Hitchcock replied, "have you ever considered sending your wife to the dry cleaners?''
(source: www.anecdotes.com)
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SYNONYMS
(vulnerable)
accessible, assailable, defenceless, exposed, liable, naked, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, prone to, ready, sensitive, sitting duck, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, weak, wide open
(vulnerability)
exposure, liability, openness, susceptibility
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"In today's economic climate companies are especially vulnerable to attack by stronger competitors."
