See eke out in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The old man eked out his pension by selling vegetables from his garden.",
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"ref": "1694 October 8, “A Letter from a Lancashire Friend about Breeding Cattle. […]”, in Richard Bradley, editor, compiled by John Houghton, Husbandry and Trade Improv’d: Being a Collection of Many Valuable Materials Relating to Corn, Cattle, Coals, Hops, Wool, &c. […] In Three Volumes, number CXIII, London: Prin[t]ed for Woo[d]man and Lyon […], published 1727, →OCLC, page 303:",
"text": "Now the reaſons why they teach the calves to drink ſo ſoon are various. [...] Secondly, the goodwife ſaves milk by this way of drinking, for ſhe quickly ekes out the milk with pottage, &c.",
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"text": "[T]he author [William Belsham] ekes out his volume with a great many extraneous details, which relate to a ſubſequent period; [...] The whole work is ſingularly confuſed and deſultory: and, indeed, the plan which the author adopts, is altogether incompatible with that unity and coherence which is eſſential to hiſtory.",
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"text": "A majority of the properties are so small as not to afford a subsistence to the proprietors, of whom, according to some computations, as many as three millions are obliged to eke out their means of support either by working for hire, or by taking additional land, generally on metayer tenure.",
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"text": "[I]t is indeed Claudius himself who is writing this book, and no mere secretary of his, and not one of those official annalists, either, to whom public men are in the habit of communicating their recollections, in the hope that elegant writing will eke out meagreness of subject-matter and flattery soften vices.",
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"word": "aanvullen"
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"roman": "aɣc̣evs",
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"word": "აღწევს"
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"word": "bersusah payah"
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"word": "sbarcare il lunario"
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"word": "tirare avanti"
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"word": "ganar a duras penas"
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"text": "Her stomach growled at the prospect of eating roast rabbit for breakfast; the last time she had eaten meat had been three days ago. Since then, they had been ekeing out the last dusty contents of a sack of oats, watered down and cooked to make a sloppy gruel.",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "venyttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "täydentää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "améliorer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "augmenter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "accroître un peu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "faire durer"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "avsebs",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "ავსებს"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "aumǯobesebs",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "აუმჯობესებს"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šeavsebs",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "შეავსებს"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gaaumǯobesebs",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "გააუმჯობესებს"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "aufbessern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "dazuverdienen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "hinzuverdienen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "strecken"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "integrare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "arrotondare"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "dorabiać"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dopolnjátʹ",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "дополня́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "suplir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "complementar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to supplement",
"word": "dryga ut"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "žít z ruky do úst"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "živořit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "bijeenscharrelen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "bijeenscharten"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "to eke out a living / an existence",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "kituuttaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "arracher"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "décrocher"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"english": "to eke out a living / an existence",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "essayer de joindre les deux bouts"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "gagner tout juste sa vie"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "aɣc̣evs",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "აღწევს"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "axerxebs",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "ახერხებს"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "tavs artmevs",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "თავს ართმევს"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "ergattern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "erringen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "erhaschen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "abtrotzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "herausholen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "abgewinnen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "zusammenkratzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "to eke out a living / an existence",
"lang": "German",
"note": "sich durchschlagen / durchkämpfen / durchboxen (mühsam / mehr schlecht als recht / recht und schlecht)",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "sich durchs Leben schlagen / kämpfen / boxen",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "über die Runden kommen"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "bersusah payah"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "sbarcare il lunario"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "tirare avanti"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "tirare la carretta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dobyvátʹ",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "добыва́ть"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "navlačiti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "ganar a duras penas"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to obtain with difficulty",
"word": "subsistir a duras penas"
}
],
"word": "eke out"
}
Download raw JSONL data for eke out meaning in English (11.4kB)
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