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Barely Maintain Crossword Clue

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99%6Exact Match!
verb

• supplement what is thought to be deficient

• live from day to day, as with some hardship

• make by laborious and precarious means

• obtain with difficulty

29%3Barely maintain, with "out"
noun

• (obsolete except Britain) An addition.

• A small stand on which a beehive is placed.

• A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space: see http//www.dave-cushman.net/bee/eke.html

verb

• Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.

adverb

• Also; in addition to.

16%6 Just barely
adverb

• (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but

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New York Times18 May 2000 Down 45
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