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Webster 1913 Edition
Eke
Eke
(ēk)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Eked
(ēkt)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Eking
.] [AS.
ēkan
, ȳkan
; 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
“To eke my pain.” 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 otherSpenser.
He
eked
out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. Macaulay.
Eke
,adv.
[AS.
eác
; akin to OFries. ák
, OS. [GREEK]k
, D. [GREEK]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]
’T will be prodigious hard to prove
That this is
That this is
eke
the throne of love. Prior.
A trainband captain
Of famous London town.
eke
was heOf famous London town.
Cowper.
☞ Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion.
Mätzner.
Eke
,Noun.
An addition.
[R.]
Clumsy
ekes
that may well be spared. Geddes.
Webster 1828 Edition
Eke
EKE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To increase; to enlarge; as, to eke a store of provisions. 2. To add to; to supply what is wanted; to enlarge by addition; sometimes with out; as, to eke or eke out a piece of cloth; to eke out a performance.3.
To lengthen; to prolong; as, to eke out the time.EKE
,adv.
'Twill be prodigious hard to prove,
That this is eke the throne of love.
[This word is nearly obsolete, being used only in poetry of the familiar and ludicrous kind.]
Definition 2024
éke
éke
Hungarian
Noun
éke
- third-person singular (single possession) possessive of ék
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | éke | — |
| accusative | ékét | — |
| dative | ékének | — |
| instrumental | ékével | — |
| causal-final | ékéért | — |
| translative | ékévé | — |
| terminative | ékéig | — |
| essive-formal | ékeként | — |
| essive-modal | ékéül | — |
| inessive | ékében | — |
| superessive | ékén | — |
| adessive | ékénél | — |
| illative | ékébe | — |
| sublative | ékére | — |
| allative | ékéhez | — |
| elative | ékéből | — |
| delative | ékéről | — |
| ablative | ékétől | — |