Injured vs Vulnerable - What's the difference?
injured | vulnerable |
(injure)
More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.
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As a verb injured
is (injure).As an adjective vulnerable is
vulnerable.injured
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Verb
(head)Usage notes
* Nouns to which "injured" is often applied: man, woman, child, worker, employee, patient, athlete, player, driver, passenger, victim, animal, horse, dog, bird, body, knee, ankle, back, muscle, tissue, leg, arm, hand, foot, head, eye, feelings.vulnerable
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Adjective
(en adjective)Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau, passage=The elimination of Federer after Nadal's loss to Lukas Rosol would have created mild panic among the fans of these gloriously gifted but now clearly vulnerable geniuses. }}
Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools