quicken
Meaning of quicken
verb
- To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
- To come back to life, receive life.
- To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
- 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 make quicker; to hasten, speed up.
- To become faster.
My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.
- 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:
Meaning whet:
Meaning invigorate:
Meaning animate:
animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, vivify, revivify
Meaning :
Translation of quicken
- French: accélérer
- Spanish: acelerar, agilizar, apresurar
- Italian: affrettarsi, accelerare, snellirsi, velocizzarsi
- Portuguese: agilizar
Anagrams of quicken
Words that rhyme with quicken
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