peaked

peaked
    adj 1: 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)}, {sickly},
           {unwell}, {under the weather}, {seedy}]
    2: having or rising to a peak; "the peaked ceiling"; "the
       island's peaked hills"
    

Peak \Peak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Peaked} (p[=e]kt); p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Peaking}.]
   1. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear
      as, a peak.
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            There peaketh up a mighty high mount. --Holand.
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   2. Hence: To achieve a maximum of numerical value, intensity
      of activity, popularity, or other characteristic, followed
      by a decline; as, the stock market peaked in January; his
      performance as a pitcher peaked in 1990; sales of the XTX
      model peaked at 20,000 per year.
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   3. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look
      thin or sickly. "Dwindle, peak, and pine." --Shak.
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   4. [Cf. {Peek}.] To pry; to peep slyly. [archaic] --Shak.
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   {Peak arch} (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch.
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Peaked \Peaked\ (p[=e]kt or p[=e]k"[e^]d), a.
   1. Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.
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   2. (Oftener p[=e]k"[e^]d) Sickly; not robust. [Colloq.]
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68 Moby Thesaurus words for "peaked":
      acicular, acuminate, acute, attenuated, cachectic, cadaverous,
      capped, corpselike, crested, crowned, cuspidate, debilitated,
      drained, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, enervated, exhausted,
      failing, feeble, frail, haggard, headed, healthless, hollow-eyed,
      in poor health, infirm, invalid, jejune, languishing, marantic,
      marasmic, moribund, pale, peaking, peaky, pinched, plumed, poor,
      puny, reduced, reduced in health, run-down, sharp, shriveled, sick,
      sickly, skeletal, starved, starveling, tabetic, tabid, tipped,
      topped, underfed, undernourished, unhealthy, unsound,
      valetudinarian, valetudinary, wasted, weakened, weakly, weazeny,
      with low resistance, withered, wizened, wraithlike