All 6 Uses of
transfuse
in
Atlas Shrugged
- His motive in the relationship seemed to resemble the need of an anemic person who receives a kind of living transfusion from the mere sight of a savagely overabundant vitality.†
Chpt 1.2
- He had acted as if he were confidently in control, as if his confidence were a transfusion to let her recapture hers, he had given her no time to wonder that they should be here together.†
Chpt 2.5
- My business is blood transfusion-and I'm still doing it.†
Chpt 3.1
- He knew that the tight pressure of his arms was the only answer which the boy was now able to hear and understand-and he held the trembling body as if the strength of his arms could transfuse some part of his living power into the arteries beating ever fainter against him.†
Chpt 3.6 *
- …to provide them with the means of their plan-so throughout the world and throughout men's history, in every version and form, from the extortions of loafing relatives to the atrocities of collectivized countries, it is the good, the able, the men of reason, who act as their own destroyers, who transfuse to evil the blood of their virtue and let evil transmit to them the poison of destruction, thus gaining for evil the power of survival, and for their own values-the impotence of death.†
Chpt 3.7
- In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(transfuse) to transfer something -- especially to transfer blood into a person
or:
to cause something to be filled with something -- such as a person with joy, or a meadow with sunlight