eked out

verbmake something last

Synonyms for eked out

verb make something last

Antonyms for eked out

Word Origin & History

"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.).

Example Sentences for eked out

With a languid movement she eked out the thought that was in her.

She helped her to find a room, and eked out the furniture from her own little store.

It is a chronicle or procession, eked out with soldiers' squabbles.

There I eked out an existence, a stranger on a foreign shore.

In this case private subscriptions were eked out by public aid.

The carpet covered only two-thirds of the floor, and was eked out by linoleum.

The definition will have to be eked out by constructions and definitions.

He had eked out the other evidence by means of a series of leases.

This man hath been useful to me; may not some profit be eked out of him dead?

My living I eked out by hunting and trapping when I got a chance.