Assailable [adjective]

Definition of Assailable:

open to attack

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Sentence/Example of Assailable:

Another day the duke's bailiff came to Hellesdon with 300 men to see if the place were assailable.

But he soon found that the position extended too far southward to be assailable by his limited forces.

A modern general would certainly have guarded with special care the flank that was most easily assailable.

With great activity and energy, therefore, they betook themselves to the fortification of every assailable point.

A part were stationed in the city, a part at Brooklyn, Long Island, and detachments at various other assailable points.

He was assailable and punishable at last, then, this potent tyrant—but the attack must be made warily and cautiously.

He prepared for both contingencies, posting careful men at every assailable point.

From praying and swearing he fell to weeping, but the stony-hearted little tyrant was not assailable by tears or entreaties.

We shall begin naturally with the Bible, as giving us the earliest historical point at which Christianity is assailable.

The camp was more easily assailable from without and less defensible than if the attack was made from inside.