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Peaked

adjective
1.
Somewhat ill or prone to illness.  Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell.  "Feeling a bit indisposed today" , "You look a little peaked" , "Feeling poorly" , "A sickly child" , "Is unwell and can't come to work"
2.
Having or rising to a peak.  "The island's peaked hills"


Peak

verb
(past & past part. peaked; pres. part. peaking)
1.
To reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity.  Synonym: top out.  "Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million"  Antonym: bottom out.



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"Peaked" Quotes from Famous Books



... see one figure clearly still. He is tall and thin, with a white peaked face of which the long inquisitive nose is the outstanding feature. His hair is lank and uncared for; his russet smock, tied in at the waist, wants brushing; his untidy cross-gartered hose shows up the meagerness of his legs. No knightly figure this, yet I ...
— Once on a Time • A. A. Milne
... hiding-place. The trees and shrubs and flowering things seemed to shake in cruel mockery. Back to his court he went and sent for the court hairdresser, that he might bribe him to devise a covering for these long, peaked, hairy symbols of his folly. Gladly the hairdresser accepted many and many oboli, many and many golden gifts, and all Phrygia wondered, while it copied, the ...
— A Book of Myths • Jean Lang
... child; 'twas finished with her song: Day after day her tears were flowing; And as I wondered what was wrong She pined and peaked above her sewing. And then one day the blind she drew, Ah! though I sought with vain endeavor To pierce the darkness, well I knew My sewing-girl had ...
— Ballads of a Bohemian • Robert W. Service
... blossoms appear for it to reach maturity. That is, the fruit requires two seasons for growth, maturing its seeds the second September. The cones of the limber pine, which vary from three to seven inches in length, are purple, having thick rounded scales and being abruptly peaked at the apex. The seeds are wingless or have only very ...
— Growing Nuts in the North • Carl Weschcke
... the whole length of that solitary street, served to support a terrace shaded by trees of some hundred years old, which thus grew about forty feet above the causeway. Through their thick branches appeared the stone front, peaked roof and tall brick chimneys of an antique house, the entrance of which was situated in the Rue Saint-Francois, not far from the Rue Saint Gervais corner. Nothing could be more gloomy than the exterior of this abode. On the entrance-side ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue


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