Usually means: Make faster or more alive.
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  1. quicken: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quicken: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quicken: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quicken: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quicken: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quicken, quicken: Wordnik
  7. quicken: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. quicken: Wiktionary
  9. quicken: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quicken: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quicken: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. quicken: Dictionary.com
  13. quicken: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Quicken: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Quicken: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. quicken: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. quicken: Rhymezone
  18. Quicken: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. quicken: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. quicken: Free Dictionary
  21. quicken: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. quicken: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. quicken: Legal dictionary
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Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quicken: CCI Computer
  2. Quicken: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. Quicken: Encyclopedia

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  2. quicken: Medical dictionary

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  1. quicken: Idioms

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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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