quicken

Meaning of quicken

verb
  1. To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
  2. To come back to life, receive life.
  3. To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
  4. 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.
  5. To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.
  6. To become faster.
    My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.
  7. To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.
    to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced

noun

The European rowan, Sorbus aucuparia.

Information about quicken

  • The plural form of quicken is: quickens.
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Hyphenation of quicken

quicken

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • quicken is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

quicken synonyms

Meaning accelerate:

accelerate, speed

Meaning whet:

whet

Meaning invigorate:

invigorate

Meaning animate:

animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, vivify, revivify

Meaning :

quickbeam

Translation of quicken

Anagrams of quicken

Quincke

Words that rhyme with quicken

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