| quicken | 1. To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the foetus in the womb. "The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies." (Ray) "And keener lightnings quicken in her eye." (Pope) "When the pale and bloodless east began To quicken to the sun." (Tennyson) 2. To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened. 1. To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite. "The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead." (Shak) "Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize." (South) 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. 3. 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. Synonym: To revive, resuscitate, animate, reinvigorate, vivify, refresh, stimulate, sharpen, incite, hasten, accelerate, expedite, dispatch, speed. Origin: AS. Cwician. See Quick. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| quicken tree | <botany> The European rowan tree; called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree. Origin: Probably from quick, and first applied to the aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. Quickenbaum, quizenbaum, quitschenbaum. Cf. Quitch grass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quickening | 1. The act or process of making or of becoming quick. 2. <physiology> The first motion of the foetus 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 foetus becoming possessed of independent life. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quickens | <botany> Quitch grass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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accelerate: move faster; "The car accelerated" whet: make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite" give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him" show signs of life; "the fetus quickened" animate: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
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the first recognizable movements of the fetus, appearing usually from the sixteenth to the twentieth week of pregnancy.
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| quicken | give new life or energy to |
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| quicken | show signs of life |
| quicken | move faster |
| quicken | give life or energy to |
| quicken | make keen or more acute |
| quicken | an agent that gives or restores life or vigor |
| quicken | the act of accelerating |
| quicken | the process of showing signs of life |
| quicken | the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels movements of the fetus |
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