Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being wounded; liable to injury; vulnerable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Capable of being wounded; vulnerable.
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- adjective Capable of being
wounded ;vulnerable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But no matter where you got them, they all have one thing in common: they are people—vulnerable and woundable—who need shepherds who love them unreservedly.
They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2 Lynn Anderson 2007
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But no matter where you got them, they all have one thing in common: they are people—vulnerable and woundable—who need shepherds who love them unreservedly.
They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2 Lynn Anderson 2007
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He felt himself colour at the question, and then hated that — hated to pass for anything so idiotic as woundable.
The Ambassadors 2003
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Their months together had given him an impression that his associate was in some ways, down below the haughtiness, quite woundable.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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What he saw, amazed, was that she stood there as lonely and woundable as any other human creature.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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Their months together had given him an impression that his associate was in some ways, down below the haughtiness, quite woundable.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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We're only eight, only human, woundable flesh and sheddable blood.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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How innocent she looked, childlike, woundable even now, even after everything she had endured.
Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983
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He felt himself colour at the question, and then hated that -- hated to pass for anything so idiotic as woundable.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1879
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If it's all very graphic you've got a bunch of simulations or special effects, and I've never been convinced that that is as effective as what an audience will do to feel compassion for the woundable body of another person.
Seattlest 2010
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