Dictionary entry

Eke

Pronunciation: /iːk/

Pronunciation

/iːk/

Myanmar Meaning

(v) ပို၍ တာရှည်ခံအောင် ခြစ်ခြုတ်သုံးသည်။

Definition

eke /i:k/ v ❏ eke sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ပို၍ တာရွည္ခံေအာင္ ျခစ္ျခဳတ္သံုးသည္။ eke out a student grant. ၂။ ယင္းသို႔ျဖင့္ အသက္ဆက္ေနရသည္။ eking out a meagre existence on the barren soil.

Examples

  1. [eke out a living/an existence] : The family barely manages to eke out a living from their small farm.
  2. Their meagre supplies have to be eked out throughout the winter.