Peaked

//piːkt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a peak or peaks.

    "The wizard wore a peaked cap."

  2. 2
    Sickly-looking, peaky.

    "2000, Toshio Mori and Lawson Fusao Inada, Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori, p. 149, She looked peaked and tired ever since he had volunteered for the army."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having or rising to a peak wordnet
  2. 2
    somewhat ill or prone to illness wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of peak form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

See peak.

Etymology 2

See peak (Etymology 2).

Etymology 3

See peak.

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