Susceptible To: Standard Pattern records the directly documented Cambridge construction while keeping distinct formal alternatives outside this page’s scope.
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Quick answer
Cambridge documents “susceptible to” for being easily influenced or harmed and, in formal use, open to an interpretation.
Key details
Confusion Familyusage-construction
Rule Familyadjective complement
Termssusceptible to
Further guidance
Construction
Cambridge documents susceptible to for being easily influenced, harmed, or open to a particular interpretation.
Style Boundary
This page records the supported susceptible-to construction and keeps alternative formal patterns outside this page unless separately evidenced.
Sources and evidence
Sources are shown with the role they play in this guide. Historical or style-sensitive claims are kept within the evidence boundary described above.
Absent From: Standard Pattern records a directly documented English construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Accountable For: Standard Pattern records the directly documented Cambridge construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced complement pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Acquainted With: Standard Pattern records a directly documented English construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Addicted To: Standard Pattern records a directly documented English construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Adept At: Standard Pattern records a directly documented English construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Adjacent To: Standard Pattern records the directly documented construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced complement pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.