eke

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishekeeke /iːk/ verb → eke something ↔ out→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuseke• Most of them eke out a living as subsistence farmers.• She continued to eke out a living based on the fading memories of her famous plunge.• Most people still live in the hinterlands of the inhabited islands eking out a living, but poverty abounds.• Finally came the bookshop where dear Mr Sneddles tried to eke out a living.• Few had any special skills; they worked as casual laborers, eking out a marginal existence, often reduced to begging.• Again, the choice was between following the work to the factory towns or eking out an existence by labouring.• I was tired of eking out an existence near poverty level on my meager assistantship.• But I restrained the impulse, for it is as well to eke out such tokens of our goodwill as we possess.Origin eke Old English iecan, ecan “to increase”

单词	eke
释义	eke From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishekeeke /iːk/ verb → eke something ↔ out→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuseke• Most of them eke out a living as subsistence farmers.• She continued to eke out a living based on the fading memories of her famous plunge.• Most people still live in the hinterlands of the inhabited islands eking out a living, but poverty abounds.• Finally came the bookshop where dear Mr Sneddles tried to eke out a living.• Few had any special skills; they worked as casual laborers, eking out a marginal existence, often reduced to begging.• Again, the choice was between following the work to the factory towns or eking out an existence by labouring.• I was tired of eking out an existence near poverty level on my meager assistantship.• But I restrained the impulse, for it is as well to eke out such tokens of our goodwill as we possess.Origin eke Old English iecan, ecan “to increase”
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