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quicken
(mass) | quicken
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quicken
(encz) | quicken,oživit v: mamm |
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(encz) | quicken,oživnout v: mamm |
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(encz) | quicken,zrychlit v: mamm |
Quicken
(gcide) | Quicken \Quick"en\, v. i.
1. 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.
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The heart is the first part that quickens, and the
last that dies. -- Ray.
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And keener lightnings quicken in her eye. --Pope.
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When the pale and bloodless east began
To quicken to the sun. --Tennyson.
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2. To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated;
as, his pulse quickened.
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Quicken
(gcide) | Quicken \Quick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. quickened; p. pr. &
vb. n. Quickening.] [AS. cwician. See Quick, a.]
1. To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as
from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to,
stimulate; to incite.
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The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead.
--Shak.
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Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that
quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize.
-- South.
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2. 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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3. (Shipbuilding) 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.
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Syn: To revive; resuscitate; animate; reinvigorate; vivify;
refresh; stimulate; sharpen; incite; hasten; accelerate;
expedite; dispatch; speed.
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quicken
(wn) | quicken
v 1: move faster; "The car accelerated" [syn: accelerate,
speed up, speed, quicken] [ant: decelerate,
retard, slow, slow down, slow up]
2: make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite" [syn: whet,
quicken]
3: give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him"
[syn: quicken, invigorate]
4: show signs of life; "the fetus quickened"
5: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
"This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my
health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive,
renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify] |
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