PEAKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peaked mean? 

• PEAKED (adjective)
  The adjective PEAKED has 2 senses:

1. somewhat ill or prone to illness

2. having or rising to a peak

  Familiarity information: PEAKED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEAKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Somewhat ill or prone to illness

Synonyms:

ailing; indisposed; peaked; poorly; seedy; sickly; under the weather; unwell

Context example:

is unwell and can't come to work

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having or rising to a peak

Context example:

the island's peaked hills

Similar:

pointed (having a point)

 Context examples 

The first peaked at 5:10 a.m. EDT and the second, larger flare, peaked at 8:02 a.m. EDT.

(Two Significant Solar Flares Imaged by NASA's SDO, NASA)

Warmer water first appeared in the bay in 2008, peaked in 2009, and stayed there almost nonstop through 2011.

(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)

Electrocardiographic criteria used for the diagnosis of right atrial abnormality may include a peaked p wave greater than 2.5 millimeters in amplitude in the inferior leads.

(P-pulmonale by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

The people were all dressed in clothing of a lovely emerald-green color and wore peaked hats like those of the Munchkins.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Burivalova and his team found that soundscape saturation peaked at dawn and dusk, likely because most birds and amphibians vocalise in those periods.

(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)

A tall, stout official had come down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged jacket.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pluto and Saturn move exceedingly slow, so as they part (having peaked in energy January 12, but after that, on the decline), you will see changes in weeks and months ahead.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was a slight uphill climb, for the foresail peaked high; and the halyards, running through various blocks on the gaff and mast, gave him separate holds for hands and feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A chain of extinct underwater volcanoes rising 1000m or higher above the sea floor, either flat-topped or peaked and located in the eastern North Atlantic.

(Dreizack seamounts, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the Môle, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)