vulnerable

He took advantage of me when I was at my most vulnerable.

I can respond in a soft, open and vulnerable way to whatever comes my way.

Or it means you're just horny and vulnerable.

So if there are people or dogs on the beach, the eggs and fledglings in the nests are really vulnerable.

Careful habitat management increased this number to over 300 birds, but the single population remained vulnerable to local catastrophic events.

These more vulnerable members of society could safely stay in a fixed village rather than be forced regularly to move great distances as part of a nomadic existence, with its greater risk of accidents and trauma.

For many years scientists assumed that a cooling of the climate was responsible, with dinosaurs being particularly vulnerable because, like modern reptiles, they were ectothermic (dependent on environmental heat, or cold-blooded).

Hatchlings are really vulnerable, especially to birds and small mammals when they are born.

The fort was vulnerable to attack from the north.

It's the most vulnerable to a roadside bomb.

Seed beetles are more vulnerable because they are much smaller than grasshoppers.

The villages became more vulnerable to arbitrary treatment by government bureaucrats as local elites now had less control over them.

These higher-frequency sounds do not travel as far, and so may better conceal the individuals producing them, who are especially vulnerable to predators in their ground nests.