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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 othe…

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  1. 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.
  2. adv. In addition; also; likewise.
  3. n. An addition.
  4. To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used without, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by alaborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scantysupply of one kind with some other. "To eke my pain." Spenser.He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. Macaulay.
  5. v:100 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.