Synonyms for eked out
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : eek |
| Phonetic Transcription : ik |
Définition of eked out
Origin :- "also" (obsolete), from Old English eac, cognate with Old Saxon, Old Dutch ok, Old Norse and Gothic auk, Old Frisian ak, Old High German ouh, German auch "also;" probably related to eke (v.).
- verb make something last
- With a languid movement she eked out the thought that was in her.
- Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
- She helped her to find a room, and eked out the furniture from her own little store.
- Extract from : « Olive in Italy » by Moray Dalton
- It is a chronicle or procession, eked out with soldiers' squabbles.
- Extract from : « William Shakespeare » by John Masefield
- There I eked out an existence, a stranger on a foreign shore.
- Extract from : « Saronia » by Richard Short
- In this case private subscriptions were eked out by public aid.
- Extract from : « Benjamin Franklin » by John Torrey Morse, Jr.
- The carpet covered only two-thirds of the floor, and was eked out by linoleum.
- Extract from : « Betty Trevor » by Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
- The definition will have to be eked out by constructions and definitions.
- Extract from : « Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays » by Bertrand Russell
- He had eked out the other evidence by means of a series of leases.
- Extract from : « Love Me Little, Love Me Long » by Charles Reade
- This man hath been useful to me; may not some profit be eked out of him dead?
- Extract from : « The Fair God » by Lew Wallace
- My living I eked out by hunting and trapping when I got a chance.
- Extract from : « The Bungalow Boys Along the Yukon » by Dexter J. Forrester
Antonyms for eked out
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