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Verb
/ˈkwikən/,
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quickened, past participle; quickening, present participle; quickens, 3rd person singular present; quickened, past tense;
  1. Make or become faster or quicker
    • - she quickened her pace, desperate to escape
    • - I felt my pulse quicken
  2. Spring to life; become animated
    • - her interest quickened
    • - he looked with quickening curiosity through the smoke
  3. Stimulate
    • - the coroner's words suddenly quickened his own memories
  4. Give or restore life to
    • - on the third day after his death the human body of Jesus was quickened by the Spirit
  5. (of a woman) Reach a stage in pregnancy when movements of the fetus can be felt

  6. (of a fetus) Begin to show signs of life

  7. Make (a fire) burn brighter

  1. accelerate: move faster; "The car accelerated"
  2. whet: make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite"
  3. give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him"
  4. show signs of life; "the fetus quickened"
  5. animate: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
  6. Quicken is a personal finance management tool developed by Intuit, Inc. Quicken runs on Windows and Macintosh systems. Previous versions ran on DOS. An online version is also available. ...
  7. The European rowan tree; To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. [from 14th c.]; To come back to life, receive life. [from 14th c.]; To make quicker; to hasten, speed up. [from 17th c.]; To become faster. [from 17th c.]
  8. A provider of financial and business management software.
  9. to awaken, coming to life