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susceptible

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Definition

easily influenced or harmed

or:

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.

susceptible = easily influenced by

She is not susceptible to emotional arguments that are not supported statistically.

susceptible = easily influenced by

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

susceptible = easily harmed when exposed

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

susceptible = easily influenced or harmed by

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda.
George Orwell -- 1984

susceptible = easily influenced

Dodgson had finally located a susceptible InGen employee earlier in the year.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park

susceptible = easily influenced

"He is susceptible, our Colonel," thought Hercule Poirot to himself with some amusement.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express

susceptible = easily influenced

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

susceptible = easily influenced

...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

susceptible = easily influenced

"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 = easily influenced

Susceptible to seizure activity.
Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

susceptible = easily influenced or harmed by

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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