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Pawning
- verb - leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"
Peaking
- verb - to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million"
Pealing
- verb - a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- ring recurrently; "bells were pealing"
- sound loudly and sonorously; "the bells rang"
Pecking
- verb - bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long"
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- kiss lightly
Peeking
- verb - throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"
Peeling
- verb - come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
- get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
- loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales
- strip the skin off; "pare apples"
Peeping
- verb - appear as though from hiding; "the new moon peeped through the tree tops"
- cause to appear; "he peeped his head through the window"
- look furtively; "He peeped at the woman through the window"
- make high-pitched sounds; "the birds were chirping in the bushes"
- speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice
Peering
- verb - look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around"
Peeving
- verb - cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful
Pegging
- verb - fasten or secure with a wooden pin; "peg a tent"
- pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
- stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations; "The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar"
- succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard"