increase speed, accelerate; expedite, hasten; hurry, rush; enliven, invigorate; restore life to, revive
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Quicken Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. i.)
To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.
To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.
(v. i.)
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.
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.
(a.)
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.
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.
(a.)
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.
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.
(a.)
To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutTo make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.
quicken
\quick"en\ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. quickened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. quickening.] [as. cwician. see quick, a.]
1. to make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite. the mistress which i serve quickens what's dead. like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize. -- south.
2. 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. (shipbuilding) 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.
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Verb
1. move faster; "The car accelerated"
(synonym) accelerate, speed up, speed
(hypernym) intensify, deepen
(hyponym) brisk, brisk up, brisken
(derivation) acceleration, quickening, speedup
2. make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite"
(synonym) whet
(hypernym) stimulate, excite, stir
3. give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him"
(synonym) invigorate
(hypernym) stimulate, excite
(derivation) quickener, invigorator, enlivener
4. show signs of life; "the fetus quickened"
(hypernym) move
(derivation) quickening
5. give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
(synonym) animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, vivify, revivify
(hypernym) stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
(verb-group) come to, revive, resuscitate
(derivation) quickener, invigorator, enlivener
Quicken Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
Quicken Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Quicken Definition from Sports Dictionaries & Glossaries
To shorten the radius of a curve; as, to quicken a sheer is to make it more pronounced.
