{
    "term": "vulnerable",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "weak and easily hurt physically or emotionally",
            "sensetop": "vulnerable (to somebody/something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "These offices are highly vulnerable to terrorist attack."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Old people are particularly vulnerable to the flu."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She looked very vulnerable standing there on her own."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In cases of food poisoning, young children are especially vulnerable."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The sudden resignation of the financial director put the company in a very **vulnerable position**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We should protect the most vulnerable members of our society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Animals are at their most vulnerable when searching for food for their young."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hippos are uniquely vulnerable to drought."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is very sensitive and rather vulnerable."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company is in an economically vulnerable position."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The virus attacks the immune system, leaving your body vulnerable to infections."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You must try not to appear vulnerable."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Exhaustion from their long and fruitless war had left them vulnerable to attack."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "prove", "appear"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["to"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvʌlnərəbl/",
                "audio": "vu/vulnerable/vulnerable__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvʌlnərəbl/",
                "audio": "vu/vulnerable/vulnerable__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from late Latin vulnerabilis, from Latin vulnerare ‘to wound’, from vulnus ‘wound’."
}