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verb iːkik [with object]eke something out1Make an amount or supply of something last longer by using or consuming it frugally. the remains of yesterday's stew could be eked out to make another meal Example sentencesExamples - Sounds great, but this technology is not designed to replace oil, merely to eke it out.
- Deposit your redundancy cheque in a Best Buy high-interest easy-access savings account, and try to eke it out for as long as you can.
- In other words, he ekes the maximum out of his action.
- Except when I tell the story it takes me about ten minutes to eke it out.
- This will be how your final hours will be eked out.
- She said: ‘We shared a can of fruit salad and a can of Coke - we didn't have many treats so we eked them out.
- There is no money to pay the bills and Mae tops up a half-empty bottle of milk to eke it out.
- As I write page after page of this I realize that I could eke a book out of this review.
Synonyms economize on, skimp on, be (more) economical with, make economies with, scrimp and scrape, save be thrifty with, be frugal with, be sparing with, cut back on, make cutbacks in, budget, husband informal go easy on augment, add to, increase, supplement enlarge, expand, amplify, make bigger, pad out, fill out, bulk out, stretch out - 1.1 Manage to make a living with difficulty.
many traders barely eked out a living Example sentencesExamples - Even she, the governor's daughter, was eking it out on an annual salary roughly equivalent to that of a 7-11 night manager - no coddling, no hand-outs.
- Some of these mines have killed and wounded their military opponents, but many of the victims are women and children who have remained in the area attempting to eke a living out of the now lethal farm land.
- The levels of poverty hit you as soon as you walk out of the airport and see people trying to eke a living out of the very earth they walk on.
- He strongly admires him because he knows how tough it is to eke a living out of one of Australia's last frontiers.
Synonyms scrape, scratch, scrimp survive, live, stay alive, exist, support oneself, cope, manage, fare, get along, get by, get through, make (both) ends meet, keep body and soul together informal keep the wolf from the door, keep one's head above water, make out
Origin Old English ēacian, ēcan (in the sense 'increase'), of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse auka. Rhymes antique, batik, beak, bespeak, bezique, bleak, boutique, cacique, caïque, cheek, chic, clique, creak, creek, critique, Dominique, freak, geek, Greek, hide-and-seek, keek, Lalique, leak, leek, Martinique, meek, midweek, Mozambique, Mustique, mystique, oblique, opéra comique, ortanique, peak, Peake, peek, physique, pique, pratique, reek, seek, shriek, Sikh, sleek, sneak, speak, Speke, squeak, streak, teak, technique, tongue-in-cheek, tweak, unique, veronique, weak, week, wreak adverb iːkik speak me thy name and eke thy place of birth archaic term for also Example sentencesExamples - And eke thou hast my heart in hold.
- And eke within the castle were Springoldes, gonnes, bowes, and archers.
Origin Old English, of Germanic origin. verbēkik [with object]eke something out1Manage to support oneself or make a living with difficulty. they eked out their livelihoods from the soil Example sentencesExamples - Even she, the governor's daughter, was eking it out on an annual salary roughly equivalent to that of a 7-11 night manager - no coddling, no hand-outs.
- The levels of poverty hit you as soon as you walk out of the airport and see people trying to eke a living out of the very earth they walk on.
- He strongly admires him because he knows how tough it is to eke a living out of one of Australia's last frontiers.
- Some of these mines have killed and wounded their military opponents, but many of the victims are women and children who have remained in the area attempting to eke a living out of the now lethal farm land.
- 1.1 Make an amount or supply of something last longer by using or consuming it frugally.
the remains of yesterday's stew could be eked out to make another meal Example sentencesExamples - This will be how your final hours will be eked out.
- There is no money to pay the bills and Mae tops up a half-empty bottle of milk to eke it out.
- Deposit your redundancy cheque in a Best Buy high-interest easy-access savings account, and try to eke it out for as long as you can.
- Except when I tell the story it takes me about ten minutes to eke it out.
- She said: ‘We shared a can of fruit salad and a can of Coke - we didn't have many treats so we eked them out.
- In other words, he ekes the maximum out of his action.
- As I write page after page of this I realize that I could eke a book out of this review.
- Sounds great, but this technology is not designed to replace oil, merely to eke it out.
Synonyms economize on, skimp on, be economical with, be more economical with, make economies with, scrimp and scrape, save augment, add to, increase, supplement - 1.2 Obtain or create, but just barely.
Tennessee eked out a 74–73 overtime victory Example sentencesExamples - It's possible to eke this function out of lesser components, but it won't last like a pure setup for this system.
- As the threat level rises, so the concessions are eked out.
- Then Katich, presumably desperate to eke some runs out of the tail and help the team cross 200, attempted a pull shot which didn't go further than keeper Jones.
- But our best tax lawyers in the Administration claim that if they were in private practice only a few billable hours might be eked out helping a major company get this set up.
- The decisive juncture of these cross-currents occurred, as noted, at the very end of the fourth game, and when Pearson eked it out he was home free in the fifth.
- Perhaps it's appropriate on some level that a film that so unashamedly distorts the sickness of senility to its own ends also requires the audience to shut off their brains to eke any enjoyment out of it.
- The team appear to have become specialists at eking points out of games but while, on previous occasions, they have left frustrated at their failure to win, this time they could take satisfaction.
Origin Old English ēacian, ēcan (in the sense ‘increase’), of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse auka. adverbēkik speak me thy name and eke thy place of birth archaic term for also Example sentencesExamples - And eke thou hast my heart in hold.
- And eke within the castle were Springoldes, gonnes, bowes, and archers.
Origin Old English, of Germanic origin. |