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Synonyms for eking out

Grammar : Verb
Spell : eek
Phonetic Transcription : ik

Définition of eking out

Origin :
  • "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.).
  • verb make something last
Example sentences :
  • He was then a young man of twenty-five, eking out a living by tuition.
  • Extract from : « Pioneers of Science » by Oliver Lodge
  • With the cane-bottomed one eking out a wooden one he lengthened the couch.
  • Extract from : « The Royal Life Guard » by Alexander Dumas (pere)
  • But this way of eking out the facts only seemed to him to falsify them.
  • Extract from : « Pragmatism » by D.L. Murray
  • The two had been eking out the remnants of Lois's school-money as best they might.
  • Extract from : « Jane Field » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • They had to have some way of eking out a reasonable existence.
  • Extract from : « The Financier » by Theodore Dreiser
  • Here we breakfasted luxuriously, eking out our store with sour milk and crumbly new white cheese from the sennhutt.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 » by Various
  • During all this time I was eking out my means of living by doing odd jobs, for I was Jack-of-all trades.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art » by Various
  • But there are a hundred ways of eking out subsistence in cheap countries, without trenching on morality.
  • Extract from : « Arthur O'Leary » by Charles James Lever
  • Spenser, who endowed English verse with the soul of harmony while eking out a life of misery, finally died in abject poverty.
  • Extract from : « Genius in Sunshine and Shadow » by Maturin Murray Ballou
  • Eking out a scant existence between two granite flags, this insignificant waif reared a caterpillar.
  • Extract from : « Trifles for the Christmas Holidays » by H. S. Armstrong

Antonyms for eking out

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