📚 verb • entry_id 26632
eke out
Meanings (ES + gloss)
complementar • suplir
To supplement.
A majority of the properties are so small as not to afford a subsistence to the proprietors, of whom, according to some computations, as many as three millions are obliged to eke o…
The old man eked out his pension by selling vegetables from his garden.
ganar a duras penas • subsistir a duras penas
To obtain with difficulty or effort.
He eked out a living selling vegetables from the garden.
[…]stylistically raw work known as outsider art that was frequently made by Southern blacks and whites who eked out livings as farmers or repairmen.
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