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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for peaked:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

peaked
    adj 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, seedy]
    2: having or rising to a peak; "the peaked ceiling"; "the
       island's peaked hills"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Peaked \Peaked\ (p[=e]kt or p[=e]k"[e^]d), a.
   1. Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.
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   2. (Oftener p[=e]k"[e^]d) Sickly; not robust. [Colloq.]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Peak \Peak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Peaked (p[=e]kt); p. pr. &
   vb. n. Peaking.]
   1. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear
      as, a peak.
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            There peaketh up a mighty high mount. --Holand.
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   2. Hence: To achieve a maximum of numerical value, intensity
      of activity, popularity, or other characteristic, followed
      by a decline; as, the stock market peaked in January; his
      performance as a pitcher peaked in 1990; sales of the XTX
      model peaked at 20,000 per year.
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   3. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look
      thin or sickly. "Dwindle, peak, and pine." --Shak.
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   4. [Cf. Peek.] To pry; to peep slyly. [archaic] --Shak.
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   Peak arch (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch.
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