quicken

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Synonyms: quicker

Antonyms: quicker

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Verb

1. Senses relating to life or states of activity. To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
2. To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
3. To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
4. To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
5. To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
6. To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
7. To make or help (something) to burn.
8. To make (a drug, liquor, etc.) more effective or stimulating. Of a pregnant woman: to be in the state of reaching the stage of pregnancy at which the movements of the foetus are first felt.
9. To make (a drug, liquor, etc.) more effective or stimulating.
10. Of a pregnant woman: to be in the state of reaching the stage of pregnancy at which the movements of the foetus are first felt.
11. To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused. To grow bright; to brighten. Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment. Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move. To give life; to make alive. To come back to life, to receive life. To inspire or stimulate.
12. To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
13. To grow bright; to brighten.
14. Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
15. Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
16. To give life; to make alive. To come back to life, to receive life.
17. To give life; to make alive.
18. To come back to life, to receive life.
19. To inspire or stimulate.
20. Senses relating to speed. To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
    • to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced
    • My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.
21. To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
    • to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced
22. To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
23. To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper, or (an incline) steeper.
    • to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced
24. To become quicker or faster.
    • My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.

Verb

1. To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.

Noun

1. In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).

Noun

1. Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also , the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.

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