Eke

(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.

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• Hire facounde eke full womanly and plain, No contrefeted termes had she To semen wise. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Reflects the new Veneering crest, in gold and eke in silver, frosted and also thawed, a camel of all work. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In this state of affairs it occurred to Mrs General, that she might 'form the mind,' and eke the manners of some young lady of distinction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• No; his heart was bound up in his work only: that was the end for which his failing life was to be eked out by hers. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He had previously been getting $80 a month, and had eked this out by copying plays for the theatre. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They eked out this food supply by hunting. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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