eke out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
supplement what is thought to be deficient
He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons
Types & categories
- supplement hypernym
Sense 2 verb
live from day to day, as with some hardship
He eked out his years in great poverty
Types & categories
- live hypernym
Sense 3 verb
make by laborious and precarious means
He eked out a living as a painter
Types & categories
- realise hypernym
Sense 4 verb
obtain with difficulty
He eked out some information from the archives
Types & categories
- obtain hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | supplement |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | live |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | realise |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | obtain |