Textual thesaurus for "eke out"

(verb) squeeze out

obtain with difficulty

He eked out some information from the archives

(verb) squeeze out

make by laborious and precarious means

He eked out a living as a painter

(verb) fill out

supplement what is thought to be deficient

He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons; Braque eked out his collages with charcoal