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Meaning of 'quicken' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Quicken [ a.]
- To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.
- 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 shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced.
2 . Quicken [ 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 move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.

Meaning of 'quicken' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . quicken [ v]
Meaning (1):
- give new life or energy to
Example in sentence:
  • A hot soup will revive me;
  • This treatment repaired my health;
  • This will renovate my spirits
Meaning (2):
- move faster
Example in sentence:
  • The car accelerated
Meaning (3):
- give life or energy to
Example in sentence:
  • The cold water invigorated him
Meaning (4):
- show signs of life
Example in sentence:
  • the fetus quickened
Meaning (5):
- make keen or more acute
Example in sentence:
  • whet my appetite

Nearby Words:

qui vive quib quibble quibbled quibbler quibbling quibblingly quica quice quich

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