WEAK SPOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weak spot mean? 

• WEAK SPOT (noun)
  The noun WEAK SPOT has 1 sense:

1. a place of especial vulnerability

  Familiarity information: WEAK SPOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEAK SPOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place of especial vulnerability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

soft spot; weak part; weak spot

Hypernyms ("weak spot" is a kind of...):

weakness (the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weak spot"):

Achilles' heel (a seemingly small but actual mortal weakness)

jugular (a vital part that is vulnerable to attack)

underbelly (the quality of being weak or unprotected)

 Context examples 

After healing, the incision may leave a weak spot in the wall of the uterus.

(Cesarean Section, NIH)

I have seen his testimonials, and from the first he was a decent, quiet, hard-working fellow, with no weak spot in him at all.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not a puncture, not a weak spot anywhere.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)