Meaning & use
eked
Managed to obtain or achieve something only with great effort or a scarce supply.
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The team eked out a narrow victory in the final seconds of the game.
They eked out a living by farming a small, rocky plot of land.
A note on using this word
Eeked is a common misspelling of eked, the past tense of eke, which almost always appears in the phrase 'eke out.'
Words with a similar meaning
scraped bybarely managed
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