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Definition
easily influenced or harmedor:
capable of being treated in a particular way
- I am more susceptible to colds than most.
susceptible = easily influenced or harmed
- She is susceptible to the pleas of anyone appearing to be in need.
- She is not susceptible to emotional arguments that are not supported statistically.
- Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis.George F. Will
- This disease, Valley Fever, makes the body tired and susceptible to other infections.Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising
- I haven't had a seizure in seven years, but the doctors tell me that I am "susceptible to seizure activity."Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda.George Orwell -- 1984
- Dodgson had finally located a susceptible InGen employee earlier in the year.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- "He is susceptible, our Colonel," thought Hercule Poirot to himself with some amusement.Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
- A few died; of the rest, the least susceptible divided into two; most put out four buds; some eight; all were returned to the incubators, where the buds began to develop; then, after two days, were suddenly chilled, chilled and checked.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- ...and apparently scarcely past girlhood: an admirable form, and the most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding; small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck; and eyes, had they been agreeable in expression, that would have been irresistible: fortunately for my susceptible heart, the only sentiment they evinced hovered between scorn and a kind of desperation, singularly unnatural to be detected there.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- "Five, four, three, two, one," he said. "Wake up, Mary. ... Some's much more susceptible than others. She's a piece of cake."David Almond -- Clay
- Susceptible to seizure activity.Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- M'Dougal seems to have had a heart susceptible to the influence of the gentler sex.Irving, Washington -- Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains
- He had always been susceptible to the laughter of the gods.London, Jack -- White Fang
- And it must be confessed that Natalie is very susceptible.Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
- But something about the shark had unsettled her, had left her susceptible to bad decisions.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- "Part of me wishes Kaltain hadn't been so susceptible," grumbled Perrington.Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
- That he was no good or at best just a weak man who was easily susceptible to whoever he was with?Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- He had always been susceptible to the laughter of the gods.Jack London -- White Fang
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susceptible = easily harmed when exposed
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