Eke
[iːk] or [ik]
Definition
(v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other.
(adv.) In addition; also; likewise.
(n.) An addition.
Typist: Wolfgang
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Help, increase, augment, raise
ANT:Stop, diminish, stint, withhold, drain, exhaust
Typed by Eliza
Definition
adv. in addition to: likewise.
v.t. to add to or increase: to lengthen.—n. E′king act of adding: what is added.—Eke out to supplement: to prolong.
Edited by Ben
Examples
- Hire facounde eke full womanly and plain, No contrefeted termes had she To semen wise. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Reflects the new Veneering crest, in gold and eke in silver, frosted and also thawed, a camel of all work. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In this state of affairs it occurred to Mrs General, that she might 'form the mind,' and eke the manners of some young lady of distinction. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- No; his heart was bound up in his work only: that was the end for which his failing life was to be eked out by hers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He had previously been getting $80 a month, and had eked this out by copying plays for the theatre. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They eked out this food supply by hunting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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