susceptibleadjective
uk/səˈsep.tə.bəl/us/səˈsep.tə.bəl/susceptible adjective (INFLUENCED)
easily influenced or harmed by something:
She isn't very susceptible to flattery.
These plants are particularly susceptible to frost.
Among particularly susceptible children, the disease can develop very fast.
used to describe someone who is easily emotionally influenced:
They persuade susceptible teenagers to part with their money.
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Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptibility
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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susceptible adjective (POSSIBLE)
[ after verb ] formal (especially of an idea or statement) able to be understood, proved, explained, etc. in a particular way:
Shakespeare's plays are susceptible to various interpretations.
UK The facts are susceptible of other explanations.
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Available and accessible
- accessible
- at your command idiom
- availability
- available
- be there for sb idiom
- beg
- bookable
- come
- come out
- hand
- nothing
- on hand idiom
- on stream idiom
- on/about your person idiom
- open (sth) up
- person
- ready
- ready-made
- release
- vacant possession
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