adverb. Also.

transitive verb. To supplement with great effort. Used with out.

transitive verb. To get with great effort or strain. Used with out.

transitive verb. To make (a supply) last by practicing strict economy. Used with out.

To increase; enlarge; lengthen; protract; prolong.

To add to; supply what is lacking to; increase, extend, or make barely sufficient by addition: usually followed by out: as, to eke out a piece of cloth; to eke out a performance.

noun. Something added to something else.

noun. Same as eking, 2.

Also; likewise; in addition.

noun. An added structure.

noun. In agriculture, an oblong stack.

transitive verb. 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.

adverb. In addition; also; likewise.

noun. An addition.

noun. A very small addition to the bottom of a beehive, often merely of a few bands of straw, on which the hive is raised temporarily.

verb. To increase; to add to, augment, lengthen.

noun. An addition.

adverb. Also.

eke out  

eked  eking  

Cheek  Creek  Dominique  Greek  Martinique  

addition  als  also  augment  increase  

eked  ekeing  ekes  eking