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Verb: eke out
  1. Obtain with difficulty
    "He eked out some information from the archives";
    - squeeze out
     
  2. Make by laborious and precarious means
    "He eked out a living as a painter";
    - squeeze out
     
  3. Live from day to day, as with some hardship
    "He eked out his years in great poverty"
     
  4. Supplement what is thought to be deficient
    "He eked out his meagre pay by giving private lessons"; "Braque eked out his collages with charcoal";
    - fill out

Derived forms: eked out, eking out, ekes out

Type of: bring in, clear, earn, gain, live, make, obtain, pull in [informal], realise [Brit], realize, supplement, take in