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Quicken

Verb

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1.VerbSenses 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.VerbTo put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
3.VerbTo put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
4.VerbTo inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
5.VerbTo stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
6.VerbTo 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.VerbTo make or help (something) to burn.
8.VerbTo 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.VerbTo make (a drug, liquor, etc.) more effective or stimulating.
10.VerbOf 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.VerbTo 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.VerbTo take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
13.VerbTo grow bright; to brighten.
14.VerbOf an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
15.VerbOf 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.VerbTo give life; to make alive. To come back to life, to receive life.
17.VerbTo give life; to make alive.
18.VerbTo come back to life, to receive life.
19.VerbTo inspire or stimulate.
20.VerbSenses 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.VerbTo make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
"to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced"
22.VerbTo make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
23.VerbTo 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.VerbTo become quicker or faster.
"My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach."
25.VerbTo apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
26.NounIn full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
27.NounSynonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also , the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
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