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peaked
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Word definitions for peaked in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peaked \Peaked\, a. Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof. (Oftener ?) Sickly; not robust. [Colloq.]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a peaked cap (= worn as part of a uniform ) ▪ She wore a sailor's peaked cap. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN cap ▪ And her spectacles and peaked cap seem to add to the image of a beauty with brains. ▪ The policeman ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing , indisposed , peaked(p) , poorly(p) , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sickly-looking," 1835, from past participle of obsolete verb peak "look sickly or thin, shrink, waste away" (1540s), which is perhaps from peak in sense of "become pointed" through emaciation. Related: Peakedness .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 Having a peak or peaks. Etymology 2 a. sickly-looking, peaky. alt. sickly-looking, peaky. Etymology 3 v (en-past of: peak)
Usage examples of peaked.
This time he watched with intense fascination as the areola on each breast darkened and her nipples peaked.
He heaves his booty, tugs askew his peaked cap and hobbles off mutely.
The atelier proved to be a thoroughly charming, if dusty, room with dormer windows cut into either side of a high peaked ceiling.
He wore a peaked badgeless naval cap which shaded his face but could not conceal his marked stoop and splendid snow-white Buffalo Bill beard.
It peaked at a billion gauss, then after several nanoseconds fell almost to zero.
The council room was a cavernous, hexagonal chamber built of oak and stone with its cathedral ceiling peaked starlike overhead at a joinder of massive beams.
He led me to another room, where a vast table, nearly as big as the room, was covered by a cloth, lumped and peaked by what it protected.
Somehow he has left his German fedora with its little bluebird feather in the headband back at the osteria, and his head, bald as an egg and becoming, alas, even balder, went completely numb under its peaked bonnet of snow before he discovered it.
The tachometer peaked out as they blew past the now rolling interceptor.
The uppermost floor consisted of three A-frame rooms facing front, their peaked roofs steep and tiled in slate.
The soldiers prodded Waakakaa to its foot and poked him into full height, neck upstretched, face pointed toward the peaked ceiling.
A little man in white ducks and peaked cap jumped out through the space where the door ought to have been, stood still for a couple of seconds until he got the hang of terra firma again, and then scuttled off in the direction of our gangway.
At the foot of the ridge they could see the buildings of the Habitation ranged about the courtyard with their tall peaked roofs, like a Norman manoir changed from stone to wood and carried mysteriously across the sea, and a little to the left of it the wigwams of the savages.
Konzak heavy across his thighs, Lyons looked out at the Pettah street, crowded with Asian bodies, and his loathing suddenly peaked in one seething moment of hatred.
It was a sharp axe of a face beneath the peaked cap pinched-in, bony, the mouth primly pursed.