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eke out

English

  1. 🔊 obtain with difficulty
    “He eked out some information from the archives”
  2. 🔊 make by laborious and precarious means
    “He eked out a living as a painter”
  3. 🔊 supplement what is thought to be deficient
    “He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons”
  4. 🔊 live from day to day, as with some hardship
    “He eked out his years in great poverty”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 complementar to eke out
  2. 🔊 suplir to eke out

Similar words

squeeze out squeeze out fill out accomplish bring to completion bring to fruition complete cope fill in fill out fulfill get by keep afloat make ends meet make good make out make up manage mature piece out refill replenish round out scrape along