ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -ekeu-, *ekeu*
Possible hiragana form: えけう |
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| | | | Eke | adv. [ AS. eác; akin to OFries. ák, OS. &unr_;k, D. &unr_;ok, OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw. och and, Dan. og, Goth. auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb. ] In addition; also; likewise. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ] 'T will be prodigious hard to prove
That this is eke the throne of love. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ] A trainband captain eke was he
Of famous London town. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. Mätzner. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Eke | n. An addition. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. Geddes. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Eke | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Eked p. pr. & vb. n. Eking. ] [ AS. ēkan, &ymacr_;kan; akin to OFries. āka, OS. ōkian, OHG. ouhhōn to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. öka, Dan. öge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. ōjas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf. Augment, Nickname. ] 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. “To eke my pain.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Ekebergite | n. [ From Ekeberg, a German. ] (Min.) A variety of scapolite. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Ekename | n. [ See Nickname. ] An additional or epithet name; a nickname. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| | eke out | (v) supplement what is thought to be deficient, Syn. fill out, Example: He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons; Braque eked out his collages with charcoal | | eke out | (v) live from day to day, as with some hardship, Example: He eked out his years in great poverty | | eke out | (v) make by laborious and precarious means, Syn. squeeze out, Example: He eked out a living as a painter | | eke out | (v) obtain with difficulty, Syn. squeeze out, Example: He eked out some information from the archives |
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