Sekirov Dictionary

quicken

/ˈkwɪk(ə)n/

verb18

  1. To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
  2. To become quicker or faster.
  3. To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
  4. To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
  5. To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
  6. To inspire or stimulate.
  7. (literary) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
  8. (literary) To give life; to make alive.
  9. (literary) To come back to life, to receive life.
  10. To grow bright; to brighten.
  11. To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
  12. Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
  13. (rare) To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
  14. Of a pregnant woman: to be in the state of reaching the stage of pregnancy at which the movements of the foetus are first felt.
  15. 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.
  16. (no longer used) To make or help (something) to burn.
  17. (no longer used) To make (a drug, liquor, etc.) more effective or stimulating.
  18. (no longer used) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper, or (an incline) steeper.

noun2

  1. (Ireland, Northern-England) In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
  2. (Scotland, Northern-England) Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
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Phrases with quicken

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