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1. (v.t.) quicken
to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten:
She quickened her pace.
2. quicken
to give vigor to; stimulate:
to quicken the imagination.
3. quicken
to restore life to; revive:
The spring rains quickened the earth.
4. (v.i.) quicken
to become more rapid:
This drug causes the pulse to quicken.
5. quicken
to become alive.
6. quicken
to enter that stage of pregnancy in which the fetus gives indications of life.
7. quicken
(of a fetus in the womb) to begin to manifest signs of life.
Etymology: (1250–1300)
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| Definition of 'quicken' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken
move faster
"The car accelerated"
2. (verb) whet, quicken
make keen or more acute
"whet my appetite"
3. (verb) quicken, invigorate
give life or energy to
"The cold water invigorated him"
4. (verb) quicken
show signs of life
"the fetus quickened"
5. (verb) animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
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| Definition of 'quicken' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) quicken
to make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite
2. (adj) quicken
to make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed
3. (adj) quicken
to shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced
4. (verb) quicken
to come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb
5. (verb) quicken
to move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened
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Sense: to make or become quicker
He quickened his pace.
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 Afrikaans: versnel |
 Arabic: يُسَرِّعُ، يَحُثُّ |
 Bulgarian: забързвам |
 Brazilian: apressar |
 Czech: zrychlit (se) |
 German: beschleunigen |
 Danish: sætte farten op |
 Greek: επιταχύνω, γίνομαι πιο γρ |
 Spanish: acelerar, aligerar |
 Estonian: kiirendama, kiirenema |
 Farsi: تند کردن |
 Finnish: nopeuttaa |
 French: accélérer |
 Hebrew: לְהֵיעָשוֹת מָהִיר יוֹתֵר |
 Hindi: तेज |
 Croatian: ubrzati |
 Hungarian: meggyorsít |
 Indonesian: mempercepat |
 Icelandic: hraða |
 Italian: accelerare |
 Japanese: 早める |
 Korean: 빠르게 하다 |
 Lithuanian: (pa)spartinti, (pa)greiti |
 Latvian: paātrināt |
 Malay: mempercepatkan |
 Dutch: versnellen |
 Norwegian: raske på, framskynde, set |
 Polish: przyspieszyć |
 Persian: تند کردن |
 Pashto: ژوند وركول، ژوندى كول: لم |
 Portuguese: apressar |
 Romanian: a (se) grăbi |
 Russian: ускорять |
 Slovak: zrýchliť (sa) |
 Slovenian: pospešiti |
 Serbian: ubrzati |
 Swedish: påskynda |
 Thai: เร่งเร้า |
 Turkish: hızlan(dır)mak |
 Taiwanese: 加快 |
 Ukrainian: пожвавлювати |
 Urdu: تیز کرنا یا ہونا |
 Vietnamese: trở nên nhanh hơn |
 Chinese: 加快 |
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