attackableadj.
/əˈtakəbl/, U.S. /əˈtækəb(ə)l/ Able to be attacked (in various senses); vulnerable to attack.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > exposed to danger > vulnerable
openeOE
subjectc1384
pregnablec1475
opportunea1500
casuala1535
wide open?1544
obnoxious1572
assailable1589
liable1593
abnoxious1611
woundable1611
obnoxious1612
speeding1612
infectible1634
sufferable1651
attackable1656
vulnerable1678
prejudicial1682
threatenable1841
doable1849
infectable1860
1656 Let. 26 Aug. in Coll. State Papers J. Thurloe (1742) V. 315 England,..being populous, is not attackable but with more supplies of men than can be expected.
1669 tr. Duc de Guise Mem. i. 11 Having discovered where he was attacquable [Fr. ayant reconnû son foible], I had brought about my design.
1709 J. MacGregory Geogr. & Hist. Mons 31 The Ground being a Rising Ground, or Hill, he Thought it was most Attackable.
1762 G. Cockings War iii. 15 The almost double number of regulars, they had entrench'd, near the town, at the only attackable spot.
1806 Philos. Mag. 23 225 The white oxide..is not attackable, except by the muriatic acid.
1813 Examiner 15 Mar. 170/2 His conceit..is his most attackable point.
1868 A. Helps Realmah II. xvii. 309 Every compromise is easily attackable.
1900 S. Butler Further Extracts Notebks. (1934) 228 It is still less moral that either man or theory should not be attackable.
1942 Pop. Photogr. Nov. 87/1 There are gases which will affect silver and make it attackable by hydrogen sulfide gas.
1989 B. Pandolfini Chess Openings cxviii. 131 He still has problems because of his..potentially attackable King.
2004 W. Freeden & V. Michel Multiscale Potential Theory i. 1 Two essential problems became attackable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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