to peak
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4.2
- verb
- /pik/
- This shows how the outbreak, the blue line, peaked in the summer months.
- usually peak
- cases peaked
- incidence peaked
Examples
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Like my level of happiness has peaked right now.
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In the United States, the epidemic peaked in the mid-1960s and has now fallen 60% from its zenith.
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So the prediction is intensity of fighting would peak and then drop.
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And within that it peaks right at the green, yellow boundary.
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The numbers indicate that we've probably peaked in global production.
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The temperature that day peaked at 98 degrees; the heat index was over 110.
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AES incidence was highest among boys <6 years of age, and cases peaked during monsoon season.
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In the USA, for example, prices peaked in 1981 at about 270 1980 U.S. $/tonne.
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The sales figures peaked during the holiday season, reflecting the highest level of consumer spending.
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In March, the number of visitors to the park peaked, making it the busiest month of the year.
Synonyms
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3.4
To rise suddenly and sharply
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5.6
To reach the highest possible level or amount
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5.5
To reach the highest point, as a wave or feeling
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5.4
To reach the highest level or amount
Idioms
Compounds
A former name for Ismail Samani Peak, the highest mountain in the Pamirs in northeastern Tajikistan
A cone-shaped mountain in central Sri Lanka that people visit as a holy place with a sacred footprint
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Peak as a verb comes from the noun peak, the top of a mountain. To peak is to reach the 'top' or the highest level of an activity or amount.