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augment, economize, fill, husband, increase, lengthen, magnify, stretch, supplement,

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Main Entry:	eke¹
Part of Speech:	v
Definition:	to gain or supplement with great difficulty
Etymology:	Latin augere 'to increase'
Usage:	transitive; used with out

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Language Translation for : Eke

Spanish:

hacer alcanzar, racionarhacer alcanzar, racionar,

German:

ergänzen,

Japanese:

補う

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Main Entry:	eke²
Part of Speech:	v
Definition:	to increase or make last by being economical
Etymology:	Latin augere 'to increase'
Usage:	transitive; used with out

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Main Entry:	eke
Part of Speech:	adv
Definition:	also
Etymology:	Old English eac
Usage:	archaic

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eke

1 [eek]

–verb (used with object), eked, ek⋅ing.

1.	to increase; enlarge; lengthen.

—Verb phrase

eke out,

a.	to make (a living) or support (existence) laboriously: They managed to eke out a living by farming a small piece of land.

b.	to supplement; add to; stretch: to eke out an income with odd jobs.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME eken, OE ēac(i)an (intrans.), deriv. of ēaca (n.) increase; ME echen, OE ēcan, var. of īecan (transit.) < WGmc *aukjan; both akin to ON auka, Goth aukan, L augēre, Gk auxánein to increase, amplify

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eke

2 [eek]

–adverb Archaic.

also.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME eek, OE ēc, ēac; c. G auch, ON, Goth auk

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eke¹ (ēk) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. eked, ek·ing, ekes

To supplement with great effort. Used with out: eked out an income by working two jobs.
To get with great effort or strain. Used with out: eke a bare existence from farming in an arid area.
To make (a supply) last by practicing strict economy. Used with out.

[Middle English eken, to increase, from Old English ēcan; see aug- in Indo-European roots.]

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eke² (ēk) Pronunciation Key
adv. Archaic
Also.

[Middle English, from Old English ēac, ēc.]

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eke

c.1200, north England and E. Midlands var. of echen from O.E. ecan, eacan, eacian "addition, reinforcement," probably from eaca "an increase," from P.Gmc. *aukan (cf. O.N. auka, O.Fris. aka, Goth. aukan), from PIE *aug- "to increase" (see augment). Now mainly in phrase to eke out (1596). It means "to make something go further or last longer;" you can eke out your income by taking a second job, but you can't eke out your miserable existence. Obsolete eke "also" (O.E. eac, Ger. auch) is probably related.

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.

Eke

Eke\, adv. [AS. e['a]c; akin to OFries. ['a]k, OS. ?k, D. ?ok, OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw. och and, Dan. og, Goth. auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb.] In addition; also; likewise. [Obs. or Archaic]

'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke the throne of love. --Prior.

A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. --Cowper.

Note: Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. --M["a]tzner.

Eke

Eke\, n. An addition. [R.]

Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. --Geddes.