Definition of quicken

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Quicken (a.) 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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Forward :: Forward (v. t.) To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement..
Quickens :: Quickens (n.) Quitch grass.
#NAME? :: -en () A suffix signifying to make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must not be confused with -en corresponding in Old English to the AS. infinitive ending -an..
Requicken :: Requicken (v. t.) To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to.
Mend :: Mend (v. t.) To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace..
Expedite :: Expedite (v. t.) To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants..
Quicken :: Quicken (a.) 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..
Quickening :: Quickening (n.) The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life..
Quicken :: Quicken (a.) 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..
Acuate :: Acuate (v. t.) To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.
Quickening :: Quickening (n.) The act or process of making or of becoming quick.
Quickbeam :: Quickbeam (n.) See Quicken tree.
Wicken Tree :: Wicken tree () Same as Quicken tree.
Livingness :: Livingness (n.) The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
Quicken :: 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..
Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening..
Animate :: Animate (v. t.) To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body..
Quicken :: 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..
Enliven :: Enliven (v. t.) To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire..
Enquicken :: Enquicken (v. t.) To quicken; to make alive.
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