streaked

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of streak.

   A fan stripped off and streaked across the field before security caught him.

   Her dark hair was streaked with gray by the time she turned forty.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both past tense and past participle, but the verbs behind it behave differently. The speed meaning and the naked dash take no object and name a path (streaked past, streaked across the field); the marking meaning takes one, or in the passive takes with (streaked with gray). Scottish speech once used streak for laying out the dead, a sense now obsolete.

2. 2
   adjective

   Marked with streaks, as of a different color or shade.

   Streaked marble lined the walls of the hotel lobby.

   The sparrow's streaked breast helps it blend into dry grass.

   Similarstreaky, striped, veined, striated

3. 3
   adjective

   Spoiled or disfigured by streaks.

   Cheap cleaner left the bathroom mirror streaked and cloudy.

   He handed back a streaked, smudged photocopy that was barely readable.

   Similarstreaky, smudged

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