QUICKEN
animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
(verb) give new life or energy to; “A hot soup will revive me”; “This will renovate my spirits”; “This treatment repaired my health”
quicken
(verb) show signs of life; “the fetus quickened”
accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken
(verb) move faster; “The car accelerated”
quicken, invigorate
(verb) give life or energy to; “The cold water invigorated him”
whet, quicken
(verb) make keen or more acute; “whet my appetite”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
quicken (third-person singular simple present quickens, present participle quickening, simple past and past participle quickened)
(transitive, now literary) To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. [from 14thc.]
(intransitive, now literary) To come back to life, receive life. [from 14thc.]
(intransitive) To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited. [from 15thc.]
(intransitive) 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. [from 16thc.]
(transitive) To make quicker; to hasten, speed up. [from 17thc.]
(intransitive) To become faster. [from 17thc.]
(shipbuilding) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.
Etymology 2
Noun
quicken (plural quickens)
(now chiefly, Northern England) The European rowan, Sorbus aucuparia. [from 15th c.]
Synonyms
• quickbeam
Source: Wiktionary
Quick"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. quickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Quickening.] Etym: [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. 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. (Shipbuilding)
Definition: 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.
Syn.
– To revive; resuscitate; animate; reinvigorate; vivify; refresh; stimulate; sharpen; incite; hasten; accelerate; expedite; dispatch; speed.
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. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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