Crossword clues for eked
eked
- ___ out a living (made do)
- Supplemented (with "out")
- Scraped (by)
- Obtained with difficulty
- Managed, with 'out'
- Managed with difficulty, with "out"
- Managed to squeeze out
- Made laboriously, with "out"
- Made do with out
- Just managed (with ''out'')
- Just made (out)
- Just got by (with "out")
- Just barely made (with "out")
- Got with difficulty
- Barely sustained, with "out"
- Barely made, with 'out'
- Barely made, with ''out''
- Barely made it, with "by"
- Barely made (with ''out'')
- Barely made (out)
- Barely earned, with 'out'
- Barely accomplished (with ''out'')
- Achieved laboriously (with "out")
- ___ out a victory (barely won)
- Wrung (out)
- Worked hard for little
- Supported laboriously (with "out")
- Supplemented with difficulty
- Supplemented (with ''out'')
- Struggled to make, with "out"
- Strained to get, with "out"
- Squeezed, with "out"
- Squeezed (with "out"), but barely
- Squeezed "out"
- Squeaked (by)
- Scraped by (with ''out'')
- Scraped (with "out")
- Produced with effort, with "out"
- Out (supplemented)
- Only just managed, with "out"
- Only just managed (with "out")
- Only just achieved, with "out"
- Managed to get, with "out"
- Made up for the deficiencies of, with "out"
- Made ends meet
- Made a living, barely
- Lived on a pittance
- Lived day to day
- Just squeezed by
- Just made (with "out")
- Just made (with ''out'')
- Just got by (with ''out'')
- Just barely made, with "out"
- Got by with out
- Gained tediously
- Frugally coped
- Barely sustained, with 'out'
- Barely scraped (out)
- Barely managed (with "by")
- Barely managed with out
- Barely made, with out
- Barely got, with 'out'
- Barely got (with "out")
- Barely got (by)
- Barely earned (with "out")
- Barely coped, with "out"
- Barely achieved (with "out")
- Attained through struggle (with ''out'')
- Achieved laboriously (with ''out'')
- --- out (just managed)
- --- out (just made it)
- -- out (used frugally)
- -- out (managed)
- ____ out: just made it
- ____ out; used frugally
- ___ out a win (just barely avoided losing)
- ___ out a win (barely avoided losing)
- ___ out a victory (squeaked through)
- ___ out a victory (just barely won)
- ___ out a living (barely managed)
- ___ out (scraped together)
- ___ out (barely obtained)
- ___ out (barely achieved)
- ___ out (barely accomplished)
- ___ out (attained with effort)
- Managed, with "out"
- Squeezed (out)
- Barely managed, with "out"
- ___out (barely got)
- Scraped (out), as a living
- Stretched (out)
- Made (out)
- Made do, with "out"
- Squeaked (out)
- ___ out a living (scraped by)
- Scratched (out), as a living
- Supplemented, with "out"
- Barely made, with "out"
- Just managed, with "out"
- ___ out (barely made)
- Barely earned, with "out"
- Squeezed (by)
- Just got (by)
- Barely got, with "out"
- Barely obtained, with "out"
- Narrowly made, with "out"
- ___ out (supplemented)
- Used a supply frugally
- A rhyme for leaked
- Stretched the budget
- ___ out (just made it)
- Just made it
- ___ out (barely managed)
- ___ out (made do)
- Got by, barely
- Scratched out a living
- ___ out (managed barely)
- Strained to get by
- Made, with "out"
- ____ out (just managed)
- Barely made out
- Scraped by, with "out"
- ___ out (stretched)
- Stretched out, as a budget
- ___ out (got by)
- Made do (with "out")
- ___ out (scrimped)
- Used frugally, with "out"
- Stretched, with "out"
- Made a bare living
- ___ out (managed)
- Supplemented by makeshift
- Just got by, with "out"
- Made do, barely
- Added to scantly
- __ out a living: barely got by
- Meted out
- ___ out a win (was barely victorious)
- ___ out a living (barely got by)
- Supplemented, with 'out'
- ___ out a living (barely scraped by)
- Added to
- Barely managed (with ''out'')
- ___ out (made, but barely)
- -- out (supplemented)
- ___ out an existence
- ____ out: supplemented
- ___ out a living (just got by)
- Barely made (with "out")
- __ out a win
- Scraped together, with "out"
- ____ out (barely earned)
- ___ out (barely got)
- Supplemented, with ''out''
- Pieced out
- Just managed (with "out")
- Barely made, as a living (with "out")
- Barely got by, with "out"
- Achieved with difficulty (with "out")
- -- out (got by)
- ___ out a living (stretched a budget)
- ___ out a living (got by)
- Squeezed out
- Scraped by (with "out")
- Just made, with "out"
- Got (by)
- Barely managed (with "out")
- Barely made it (with "out")
- --- out a living (scraped by)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eke \Eke\ ([=e]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Eking.] [AS. [=e]kan, [=y]kan; akin to OFries, [=a]ka, OS.
?kian, OHG. ouhh[=o]n to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw.
["o]ka, Dan. ["o]ge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. ?jas
strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf.
Augment, Nickname.]
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. ``To eke my
pain.''
--Spenser.
He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty
pounds.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: eke)
Usage examples of "eked".
No birds were in sight, though the forward edge of feather-thin clouds eked southward high above.
Even with Bobby Fiore, she spoke a curious mixture of Chinese, English, and the little devils’ tongue, eked out with much gesture and dumb show.
He couldn’t even tell the two groups apart by their gear: many Russian partisans bore captured German equipment, while about an equal number of Hitler’s finest eked out their own supplies with Soviet stocks.
When the pressure on the back of his neck finally eased up a bit, he was able to see that the car was bumping through sparsely settled slum areas, where only a few rock rats eked out a living in stale air, without piped water or electricity.