QUICKEN
\kwˈɪkən], \kwˈɪkən], \k_w_ˈɪ_k_ə_n]\
Definitions of QUICKEN
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
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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.
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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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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.
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To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.
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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.
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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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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.
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To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.
By Noah Webster.
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To come to life; become alive; to act or move more rapidly.
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Increase the speed of; hasten; as, to quicken one's steps; to bring to life; to make keen; give new life to; refresh; cheer.
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Quickener.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Quickener.
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To make quick or alive: to revive: to reinvigorate: to cheer: to excite: to sharpen: to hasten.
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To become alive: to move with activity.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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