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peaked 音標拼音: [p'ikt] a. 有遮檐的,尖的,消瘦的 有遮簷的,尖的,消瘦的 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" [ synonym: { 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" Peaked \ Peaked\ ( p[= e] kt or p[= e] k"[ e^] d), a. 1. Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Oftener p[= e] k"[ e^] d) Sickly; not robust. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] There peaketh up a mighty high mount. -- Holand. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ PJC] 3. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly. " Dwindle, peak, and pine." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. [ Cf. { Peek}.] To pry; to peep slyly. [ archaic] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { Peak arch} ( Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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