different between peaked vs bloodless

English

Etymology 1

See peak.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?kt, IPA^(key): /pi?kt/ or enPR: p?k??d, IPA^(key): /?pi?k?d/
• Rhymes: -i?kt, -i?k?d
• Homophones: piqued, peeked

Adjective

peaked (comparative more peaked, superlative most peaked)

1. Having a peak or peaks.

   The wizard wore a peaked cap.

Etymology 2

See peak (Etymology 2).

Alternative forms

• pekid

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?pi.k?d/

Adjective

peaked (comparative more peaked, superlative most peaked)

1. 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.

Translations

Etymology 3

See peak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?kt/
• Homophones: peeked, piqued

Verb

peaked

1. simple past tense and past participle of peak

Anagrams

• Deepak

English

Alternative forms

• bloudless (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English blodles, from Old English bl?dl?as (“bloodless”), equivalent to blood +? -less. Cognate with Dutch bloedeloos (“bloodless”), German blutlos (“bloodless”), Danish blodløs (“bloodless”), Swedish blodlös (“bloodless”), Icelandic blóðlaus (“bloodless”).

Adjective

bloodless (comparative more bloodless, superlative most bloodless)

1. Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act III, Scene 1,^[1]

     Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons’ heads,

     Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here:

     Thy other banish’d son, with this dear sight

     Struck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I,

     Even like a stony image, cold and numb.

   • 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, 2001, Part One, Chapter 2,

     The face was white and thoroughly bloodless with some kind of foundation cream; it stank of powder and a gardenia-like perfume.

2. Taking place without loss of blood.

   a bloodless conquest; a bloodless coup d'état; a bloodless revolution; a bloodless victory

3. Lacking emotion, passion or vivacity.
   • 1937, “No. 1 Rumanian,” Time, 8 February, 1937,^[2]

     Those Philharmonic subscribers who considered Guest Conductor Igor Stravinsky too bloodless and ascetic […] last week found his successor, Georges Enesco, more to their taste.

Derived terms

• bloodlessly
• bloodlessness

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