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Peaked is a related term of grey.


As an adjective peaked

is having a peak or peaks or peaked can be sickly-looking, peaky.

As a verb peaked

is (peak).

As a proper noun grey is

.

peaked

English

Etymology 1

See peak

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a peak or peaks.
    • The wizard wore a peaked cap.

    Etymology 2

    See (Etymology 2)

    Alternative forms

    * pekid

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
  • * 2001, Fred C. Feddeck, Hale Men of Fordham: Hail! , p. 17,
    • While Nixon looked peaked throughout the debate, Kennedy looked like a poised diplomat oozing confidence.
  • * 2004, Don Ecker, Past Sins , p. 276,
    • Peck looked peaked to Williams. He was pale and appeared to be breathing in shallow gasps.

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (peak)

    • Anagrams

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    grey

    English

    Adjective

    (greyer)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey , the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey -suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
    Usage notes
    A mnemonic for remembering which spelling is used where: gre'''y'' is the (British) '''E'''nglish spelling, while ''gr'''a'''y'' is the '''A merican spelling. However, ''grey is also frequently found in American English.

    Derived terms

    {{der3, battleship grey , grey area , greybeard , grey eminence , grey-haired , greyhound , greyness , grey ghost , grey matter}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
    • My hair is beginning to grey.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • See also

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    Anagrams

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