During droughts, farmers are barely able to eke out a living.
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Eke
//iːk//
Synonyms for "eke" (5 found)
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Translations
15 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- допълвам verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
- прибавям verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
- удължавам verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 增加 verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
- 補充 /补充 verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
Czech
1 entries- nastavit verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
Finnish
3 entries- lisätä verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
- pitkittää verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
- venyttää verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
Japanese
1 entries- 補う verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
Russian
3 entries- добавля́ть verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
- увели́чивать verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
- удлинять verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
Spanish
2 entries- auger verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
- incrementar verb (to add to, augment; to increase; to lengthen)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
In 2017, in Jammu, local BJP leaders launched a campaign demanding all Rohingya who live in slums and eke out their living by doing menial jobs be expelled from the city.
Source: tatoeba (10021214)
Since my teenage years, I have enjoyed the Dune franchise of Frank Herbert—the literature and movies. The setting is many thousands of years into the future, as humankind has expanded throughout the galaxy. The official language of the Imperium is called Galach, a descendant of Earth's English, Russian, and other languages. Meanwhile, on the desert planet Arrakis, the Fremen eke a living as desert people. The Fremen language is a descendant of Earth's Arabic.
Source: tatoeba (10515788)
Despite coronavirus lockdown measures, people who work in the informal sector are forced to leave their homes to eke out enough money to support themselves and their families.
Source: tatoeba (12054877)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.