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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ekeadverb

    Also; likewise; beside; moreover.

    Etymology: eac, Saxon; ook, Dutch.

    If any strength we have, it is to ill;
    But all the good is God’s, both power and eke will. Fa. Qu.

    Now if ’tis chiefly in the heart
    That courage does itself exert,
    ’Twill be prodigious hard to prove,
    That this is eke the throne of love. Matthew Prior.

  2. To Ekeverb

    Etymology: eacan, Saxon.

    I dempt there much to have eked my store,
    But such eking hath made my heart sore. Edmund Spenser, Pastorals.

    The little strength that I have, I would it were with you:
    ———— And mine to eke out her’s. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

    Still be kind,
    And eke out our performance with your mind. William Shakespeare, H. V.

    Your ornaments hung all,
    On some patch’d doghole ek’d with ends of wall. Alexander Pope.

    I speak too long; but ’tis to piece the time,
    To eke it, and to draw it out in length,
    To stay you from election. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

    Eusden ekes out Blackmore’s endless line. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ekeverb

    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

  2. Ekeadverb

    in addition; also; likewise

  3. Ekenoun

    an addition

  4. Etymology: [AS. kan, kan; akin to OFries. ka, OS. kian, OHG. ouhhn to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. ka, Dan. ge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. jas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf. Augment, Nickname.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Eke

    ēk, v.t. to add to or increase: to lengthen.—n. E′king, act of adding: what is added.—Eke out, to supplement: to prolong. [A.S. écan, akin to L. augēre, to increase.]

  2. Eke

    ēk, adv. in addition to: likewise. [A.S. éac; Ger. auch; from root of eke, v.t.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. EKE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Eke is ranked #29403 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Eke surname appeared 804 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Eke.

    75.3% or 606 total occurrences were Black.
    17.9% or 144 total occurrences were White.
    3.4% or 28 total occurrences were Asian.
    2.1% or 17 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of eke in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of eke in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of eke in a Sentence

  1. Donald Trump:

    If Ted should eke it out -- and I hope that doesn't happen -- and he's got this cloud over his head, I don't think it's going to be possible for him to do very well.

  2. Teddy Tzanetos:

    When we first flew, we thought we would be incredibly lucky to eke out five flights, we have exceeded our expected cumulative flight time since our technology demonstration wrapped by 1,250% and expected distance flown by 2,214%.

  3. Christopher Granville:

    The national savings buffers are worth around 6.5 percent of GDP at present and that's the basis of saying they will run out of cash by the middle of next year - unless the oil price goes up, but to eke out the buffers until the election will require meaningful spending cuts now... Desperate times call for desperate measures.

  4. Philippine Red Cross Chairman Gordon:

    The passengers would have been farmers or fishermen, or ordinary businessmen -- common folks, they are not very well off, otherwise they would be on better vessels or take the plane. But obviously, these are poor folks, simple folks who are trying to eke out an existence.

  5. Omar Khayyam:

    To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

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