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| liability |
area of weakness; disadvantage; susceptibility. [1/3 definitions] |
| limit |
(usu. pl.) a weakness or shortcoming. [1/5 definitions] |
| limitation |
a weakness or shortcoming that restricts one's abilities. [1/3 definitions] |
| mountain sickness |
nausea, weakness, and difficulty in breathing at high altitudes, caused by lack of oxygen. |
| myasthenia |
abnormal muscular weakness. |
| pride |
self-deceiving blindness to one's own weakness or limitation. [1/7 definitions] |
| rally1 |
to recover rapidly from or as if from weakness, illness, or loss; regain vigor or value. [1/12 definitions] |
| scurvy |
a potentially fatal disorder caused by a lack of vitamin C in one's diet, usu. accompanied initially by weakness and bleeding gums. [1/2 definitions] |
| sleeping sickness |
a usu. fatal infectious disease found in tropical Africa, characterized by fever, weakness, and tremors, and transmitted by tsetse flies. [1/2 definitions] |
| take advantage |
to selfishly exploit an opportunity or weakness, or use in a selfish manner for one's own benefit (usu. fol. by "of"). [1/2 definitions] |
| tooth |
a preference or weakness for a particular flavor or type of food. [1/5 definitions] |
| undulant fever |
a persistent and recurrent fever, accompanied by weakness and joint pains, and caused by contact with domestic animals and their products, esp. meat and milk; brucellosis. |
| unhealthy |
tending to reflect or cause moral or ethical weakness. [1/4 definitions] |
| vice1 |
a physical weakness. [1/5 definitions] |
| vulnerable |
being capable of being hurt or injured; having weakness. [1/3 definitions] |
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