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  1. Achillesnoun

    a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel'

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  1. List of paraphrases for "achilles":

    achiel, achille, achiiles, achillas, heel

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  1. Jack Riley:

    Clearly that was his Achilles' heel the first time and I think it can be this time, this time when we get him, and I tell you we are going to get him, it may have a little different outcome for him.

  2. Sir Philip Sidney:

    Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

  3. Andreas Essig:

    Now copsin kills bacteria by binding to an essential cell wall building block, the cell wall you can consider like the achilles heel of bacteria, so when you disrupt the cell wall synthesis bacteria usually dies rapidly. The binding pattern of copsin on this building block is very unique and therefore copsin is active against bacteria resistant to conventional antibiotics.

  4. Wayne Koff:

    We will have found the Achilles heel of HIV.

  5. Marcel Fratzscher:

    Low investment is the Achilles' heel of the German economy.


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