Eeked vs Eked - What's the difference?
eeked | eked |
(eek)
Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).
Expressing (sometimes mock) fear or surprise.
The shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.
To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation.
* 2009 , Paul Gelder, Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions
* 2011 , Isaac E. Washington, The Stars in My Dreams (page 106)
(eke)
To increase; to add to, augment, lengthen.
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(beekeeping, archaic) A very small addition to the bottom of a beehive, often merely of a few bands of straw, on which the hive is raised temporarily.
(obsolete) Also.
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As verbs the difference between eeked and eked
is that eeked is past tense of eek while eked is past tense of eke.eeked
English
Verb
(head)eek
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Interjection
Verb
(en verb)- She was dangling the mouse by its tail, but as it tried to arch upwards and bite, she started to jig about wildly The anglers had watched a beautiful young woman dance naked beneath a full moon to the feverish rhythm of unworldly eeking noises!
- We saw a frog and she eeked in terror again from the sight of it hopping near her.
Anagrams
* eke ----eked
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *eke
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(ek)- Here endlesse penance for one fault I pay, / But that redoubled crime with vengeance new / Thou biddest me to eeke ?
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Adverb
(-)- 'Tis false: for Arthur wore in hall / Round-table like a farthingal, / On which, with shirt pull'd out behind, / And eke before, his good knights dined.
- 'John Gilpin was a citizen / of credit and renown / A train-band captain eke was he / of famous London town.'