- vulnerable (to somebody/something) weak and easily hurt physically or emotionally
- These offices are highly vulnerable to terrorist attack.
- Old people are particularly vulnerable to the flu.
- She looked very vulnerable standing there on her own.
- In cases of food poisoning, young children are especially vulnerable.
- The sudden resignation of the financial director put the company in a very vulnerable position.
- We should protect the most vulnerable members of our society.
- Animals are at their most vulnerable when searching for food for their young.
Extra Examples- Hippos are uniquely vulnerable to drought.
- She is very sensitive and rather vulnerable.
- The company is in an economically vulnerable position.
- The virus attacks the immune system, leaving your body vulnerable to infections.
- You must try not to appear vulnerable.
- Exhaustion from their long and fruitless war had left them vulnerable to attack.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
- appear
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- extremely
- fairly
- very
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- to
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from late Latin vulnerabilis, from Latin vulnerare ‘to wound’, from vulnus ‘wound’.
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