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PEAKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or rising to a peak
Example:
the island's peaked hills
Classified under:
Similar:
pointed (having a point)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Somewhat ill or prone to illness
Example:
is unwell and can't come to work
Synonyms:
ailing; indisposed; peaked; poorly; seedy; sickly; under the weather; unwell
Classified under:
Similar:
ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb peak
Context examples:
Each volunteer in the study had both a unique amount of inflammatory response and a unique amount of time for when the responses peaked, up to 6 hours after eating (8 or more hours is considered fasting by nutritionists).
(Humans More Unique than Expected When It Comes to Digesting Fatty Meals, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Like silver, he thought to himself, like tinkling silver bells; and on the instant, and for an instant, he was transported to a far land, where under pink cherry blossoms, he smoked a cigarette and listened to the bells of the peaked pagoda calling straw-sandalled devotees to worship.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I remembered that the most easterly of the rivers which drain into Captain Kidd's anchorage ran from the two-peaked hill upon my left, and I bent my course in that direction that I might pass the stream while it was small.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
