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Eke out

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To supplement. transitive

    "The old man eked out his pension by selling vegetables from his garden."

  2. 2
    obtain with difficulty wordnet
  3. 3
    To obtain with difficulty or effort. transitive

    "He eked out a living selling vegetables from the garden."

  4. 4
    make by laborious and precarious means wordnet
  5. 5
    supplement what is thought to be deficient wordnet
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  1. 6
    live from day to day, as with some hardship wordnet

Etymology

From obsolete eke (“to add to, augment; to increase”) + out.

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