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pregnable
adjective
formaluk /ˈpreɡ.nə.bəl/ us /ˈpreɡ.nə.bəl/
able to be attacked or entered:
Many of these borders have historically been porous and pregnable.
The documentary featured a team of ex-prisoners attempting to break into this thoroughly pregnable building.
easy to beat, especially in sport:
The injury leaves the team with just one defensive midfielder to protect a dangerously pregnable defence.
They had five wins, alongside two narrow defeats in the barely pregnable strongholds of Limerick and Paris.
The fortress has been described as "impregnable", but everyone knows it is quite pregnable.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unsafe and insecure
appealingly
at stakeidiom
be on the lineidiom
day
indefensible
insecure
insecurely
insecurity
instable
security breach
shaky
sketchy
someone's/something's days are numberedidiom
threat
threatened
unbalanced
unscreened
unsecured
unsound
unsupervised
Opposite
impregnable
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