Definitions for peaked

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peaked peaked

Spelling: [peekt, pee-kid]

IPA: /pikt, ˈpi kɪd/

Peaked is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in peaked (adeekp).

Definitions for peaked

noun

1. the pointed top of a mountain or ridge.
2. a mountain with a pointed summit.
3. the pointed top of anything.
4. the highest or most important point or level:
5. the maximum point, degree, or volume of anything:
6. a time of the day or year when traffic, use, demand, etc., is greatest and charges, fares, or the like are at the maximum:
7. the higher fare, charges, etc., during such a period:
8. Physics. the maximum value of a quantity during a specified time interval: the maximum power consumed or produced by a unit or group of units in a stated period of time.
9. a projecting point:
10. widow's peak.
11. a projecting front piece, or visor, of a cap.
12. Phonetics. nucleus (def 8a).
13. Nautical. the contracted part of a ship's hull at the bow or the stern. the upper after corner of a sail that is extended by a gaff. the outer extremity of a gaff.

adjective

1. having a peak:
2. pale and drawn in appearance so as to suggest illness or stress; wan and sickly.
3. Also, on-peak. being at the point of maximum frequency, intensity, use, etc.; busiest or most active:
4. constituting the highest or maximum level, volume, etc.; optimal; prime:

verb (used with object)

1. Nautical. to raise the after end of (a yard, gaff, etc.) to or toward an angle above the horizontal.

verb (used without object)

1. to project in a peak.
2. to attain a peak of activity, development, popularity, etc.:
3. to become weak, thin, and sickly.

Origin of peaked

First recorded in 1400-50, peaked is from the late Middle English word pekyd. See peak¹, -ed³

Examples for peaked

His biggest single so far, the Pitbull collaboration “Mmm Yeah,” peaked at No. 49 on the Hot 100.

The stoop was gone from his shoulders, and the peering, peaked look from his eyes.

By peaked we must understand "stole" or got admission by stealth.

Under it her peaked little face was the colour of old ivory.

In point of fact, the mass vilification of the league, which peaked a month ago, burned out as quickly as it ignited.

She peaked with a few good songs, but now is riding the wave of promotions, brands, and paparazzi.

She took the child away, and it peaked and pined from that day.

“Oh, they are with us,” said the leader of the group, a man in his fifties, dressed in camouflage, wearing a peaked military cap.

The one in which I sat was long and narrow, as all the rest had been, with peaked gables.

The song debuted in 2002, a year in which Putin was wildly popular and peaked at 82 percent job approval.