Eke out
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To supplement. transitive
"The old man eked out his pension by selling vegetables from his garden."
- 2 obtain with difficulty wordnet
- 3 To obtain with difficulty or effort. transitive
"He eked out a living selling vegetables from the garden."
- 4 make by laborious and precarious means wordnet
- 5 supplement what is thought to be deficient wordnet
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- 6 live from day to day, as with some hardship wordnet
Example
More examples"The old man eked out his pension by selling vegetables from his garden."
Etymology
From obsolete eke (“to add to, augment; to increase”) + out.