Both Uses
anemic
in
Atlas Shrugged
(Auto-generated)
- 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 *anemic = suffering from too few red blood cells
or (less commonly): lacking vitality - The twilight was draining the sky without the wound of a sunset; it looked more like the fading of an anemic body in the process of exhausting its last drops of blood and light.†
Chpt 2.10
Definitions:
-
(1)
(anemia) a deficiency of red blood cells or where red blood cells are deficient in hemoglobin -- resulting in fatigue
or (less commonly):
suffering from a lack of energy - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)