Both Uses of
vulnerable
in
Catch-22
- Doc Daneeka would never go swimming again; a person could swoon or suffer a mild coronary occlusion in an inch or two of water and drown to death, be carried out to sea by an undertow, or made vulnerable to poliomyelitis or meningococcus infection through chilling or over-exertion.†
Chpt 14
- Now that she lay captive beneath him, he wondered how he would ever escape her without leaving himself vulnerable.†
Chpt 38 *
Definition:
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(vulnerable) easily hurt or in need of help; or easily influenced or subject to temptation