Assailable

//əˈseɪləbl̩// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be assailed or attacked.

    "There’s comfort yet; they [Banquo and Fleance] are assailable; / Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown / His cloister’d flight […] there shall be done / A deed of dreadful note."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not defended or capable of being defended wordnet

Synonyms

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exposedliableopenpenetrablepregnablesurmountable

Example

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"There’s comfort yet; they [Banquo and Fleance] are assailable; / Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown / His cloister’d flight […] there shall be done / A deed of dreadful note."

Etymology

From assail + -able.

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