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anemic

/uh-nee-mik/US // əˈni mɪk //UK // (əˈniːmɪk) //

贫血,贫血症,贫血的,贫穷

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Pathology. affected with anemia; having a deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells.
    • : lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness; listless; weak: an anemic effort;anemic tones.

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Examples

  • In India alone, more than half of reproductive-­age women are anemic, along with nearly 60% of children under five.

  • South Africa’s economy, which has seen anemic growth in the last few years, has been tough for global consumer brand entrants trying to navigate a difficult market.

  • Limited exposure and anemic sales are only two of the challenges facing the businesses James said she so badly wants to help.

  • The obvious problem is on the other side of the ball, where a quarterback combination of Nick Foles and Mitchell Trubisky has made for one of the league’s most anemic passing attacks.

  • Before the pandemic struck, Clorox was struggling with anemic sales growth.

  • Figueroa told The Daily Beast that her husband indeed was stabbed and he is also anemic from malnutrition.

  • The bare bones of an already-anemic effort to fight the epidemic in West Africa that is threatening to destroy the entire region.

  • Worse still, Texas had an anemic 32 percent turnout and Tennessee was close behind at 34 percent.

  • There are surely more applications in the pipeline, but these early numbers are anemic.

  • And the public, which was also suffering through high inflation and anemic GDP growth, had had enough.

  • When I see Chet and Laura anemic, or otherwise sickly, as the result of their out-of-door sports or gym.

  • She finally becomes anemic and neurasthenic and a misanthrope.

  • I have been made fairly "giddy," as the Englishmen say, by this anemic conversation at country clubs.

  • I said,” looking at Pen, “that I feared you were anemic, and then I had to describe the word minutely.

  • Below the edges of these anemic patched garments, loomed one old boot and one shoe, laced crookedly with a piece of rawhide.