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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peak \Peak\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Peaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peaking}.]
1. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
There peaketh up a mighty high mount. --Holand.
2. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky. ''Dwindle, peak, and pine.'' --Shak.
3. [Cf. {Peek}.] To pry; to peep slyly. --Shak.
{Peak arch} (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peaked \Peaked\, adjective
1. Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.
2. (Oftener ?) Sickly; not robust. [Colloq.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
peaked
adjective
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}]
2: having or rising to a peak; "the peaked ceiling"; "the island's peaked hills"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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