Definitions from Wiktionary (quicken)
▸ verb: Senses relating to life or states of activity.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
▸ verb: To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
▸ verb: To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
▸ verb: (literary, also figuratively) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
▸ verb: (archaic) To make or help (something) to burn.
▸ verb: (obsolete)
▸ verb: To make (a drug, liquor, etc.) more effective or stimulating.
▸ verb: (passive voice) 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.
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
▸ verb: To grow bright; to brighten.
▸ verb: Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
▸ verb: (also figuratively) 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.
▸ verb: (literary, also figuratively)
▸ verb: To give life; to make alive.
▸ verb: To come back to life, to receive life.
▸ verb: (rare) To inspire or stimulate.
▸ verb: Senses relating to speed.
▸ verb: To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
▸ verb: (construction, nautical (shipbuilding), archaic) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper, or (an incline) steeper.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become quicker or faster.
▸ verb: (transitive, rare) To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
▸ noun: (chiefly Ireland, Northern England) In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
▸ noun: (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) 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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▸ verb: Senses relating to life or states of activity.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
▸ verb: To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
▸ verb: To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
▸ verb: (literary, also figuratively) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
▸ verb: (archaic) To make or help (something) to burn.
▸ verb: (obsolete)
▸ verb: To make (a drug, liquor, etc.) more effective or stimulating.
▸ verb: (passive voice) 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.
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
▸ verb: To grow bright; to brighten.
▸ verb: Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
▸ verb: (also figuratively) 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.
▸ verb: (literary, also figuratively)
▸ verb: To give life; to make alive.
▸ verb: To come back to life, to receive life.
▸ verb: (rare) To inspire or stimulate.
▸ verb: Senses relating to speed.
▸ verb: To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
▸ verb: (construction, nautical (shipbuilding), archaic) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper, or (an incline) steeper.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become quicker or faster.
▸ verb: (transitive, rare) To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
▸ noun: (chiefly Ireland, Northern England) In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
▸ noun: (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) 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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