eke

Speech parts

1. eke - Noun

2. eke - Verb

3. eke - Adverb

Meaning

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.

In addition; also; likewise.

An addition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

likewise besides furthermore increase distance exist remain continue also too improve husband add drawing extend
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Antonyms

lower reduce contract decline decrease moderate
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Phrases with the word

eke something out eke-name eke out a living on eke out an existence on eke out existence

Derivatives

eked eking

Examples

Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun. Geoffrey Chaucer

O happy dames! that may embrace The fruit of your delight; Help to bewail the woful case, And eke the heavy plight Of me, that wonted to rejoice The fortune of my pleasant choice: Good ladies! help to fill my mourning voice. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings, With green hath clad the hill, and eke the vale: The nightingale with feathers new she sings; The turtle to her make hath told her tale; Summer is come, for every spray now springs. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

The bird, the best, the fisch eke in the see, They live in fredome, everich in his kynd. And I a man, and lakkith libertee. James I of Scotland

I go where all nature goes, Where goes the leaf of the rose, And eke the leaf of the bay. Antoine-Vincent Arnault

Where law lacks, honour should eke it out. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Ekbom syndrome EKC Ekdahl eke out eke out a living on eke out an existence on