Definition of peak

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Peak (v. i.) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky..

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Melodrama :: Melodrama (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's Fidelio..
Sputter :: Sputter (v. i.) To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
Pinnacle :: Pinnacle (n.) Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.
Dilate :: Dilate (v. i.) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.
Free-tongued :: Free-tongued (a.) Speaking without reserve.
Sensationalist :: Sensationalist (n.) One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
Whist :: Whist (a.) Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
Extemporize :: Extemporize (v. i.) To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address..
Italianize :: Italianize (v. i.) To play the Italian; to speak Italian.
Drumble :: Drumble (v. i.) To mumble in speaking.
Language :: Language (n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style..
Muffle :: Muffle (v. i.) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation..
Provincialism :: Provincialism (n.) A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality..
Epanorthosis :: Epanorthosis (n.) A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act!.
Splutter :: Splutter (v. i.) To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter.
Lip :: Lip (v. t.) To utter; to speak.
Sneer :: Sneer (v. i.) To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.
Low :: Low (adv.) With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low..
Burr :: Burr (v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.
Effect :: Effect (n.) Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect..
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