peaking

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of peak. Use this -ing form when something is reaching its highest point right now.

   The fever was peaking late at night, so we stayed awake.

   Ticket sales kept peaking in the days before the show.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   The moment when something reaches its highest point before it starts to drop.

   Like the very top of a hill, just before you start walking back down.

   The peaking of summer heat usually comes in late July.

   Doctors watched for the peaking of the fever overnight.

   Similarcresting

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3. 3
   adjective

   Looking pale and sick, or growing weak and thin from sadness or from missing someone.

   Similarsickly, pale

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