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Quicken

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Meaning

Verb

  • Senses
    to life or
    of activity.
  • To
    (someone
    )
    of
    or
    to life; to
    , to rouse.
  • To
    or
    (an
    , a
    , etc.).
  • To give life to (someone
    never
    or once
    ); to
    , to
    , to revive.
  • To make or help (something) to burn.
  • To make (a
    ,
    , etc.) more effective or stimulating.
  • To
    a state of
    or
    to life; to be
    or roused.
  • To
    ; to
    en.
  • Of an
    ,
    , etc.: to ferment.
  • To give life; to make alive.
  • To
    to life, to
    life.
  • To
    or stimulate.
  • In Pregnancy:
  • Senses
    to life or
    of activity.
  • Of a
    : to be in the state of
    the
    of
    at which the
    of the
    are first felt.
  • Of a
    : to first feel the
    of the
    , or
    the
    of
    at which this
    ; of a
    : to
    to move.
  • Senses
    to speed.
  • To make (something)
    or
    ; to
    ,
    up.
  • To become
    or faster.
  • In Construction & Nautical:
  • Senses
    to speed.
  • (construction,
    (shipbuilding),
    ) To
    the
    of (a
    ); to make (a
    )
    , or (an
    ) steeper.
  • To
    the
    of (a
    ); to make (a
    )
    , or (an
    ) steeper.
  • To
    (mercury) to (something); to
    (something) with
    ; to
    .

    Noun

    In Irish English, Northern England English & Pome fruits:
    In
    : the European
    ,
    , or
    (Sorbus aucuparia).
    In Midlands English, Northern England English, Northern Irish English, Scottish English, Hordeeae tribe grasses, Pome fruits & Pregnancy:
  • (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Synonym of
    (“a
    of
    , Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the
    ), the
    of this, and sometimes other
    es.
  • Synonym of
    (“a
    of
    , Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the
    ), the
    of this, and sometimes other
    es.
  • Sourced from
    Wiktionary

    Origin

    quicken
    English
    arrow
    -en
    English
    arrow
    -en
    Middle English (1100-1500)
    -enen
    Middle English (1100-1500)
    quick
    English
    Sourced from
    Etym
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