英英字典: quicken
KK Pronunciation
〔 ˋkwIkәn 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˊkwikәn 〕
Overview of verb quicken
The verb quicken has 5 senses
- accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken -- (move faster; "The car accelerated")
- whet, quicken -- (make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite")
- quicken, invigorate -- (give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him")
- quicken -- (show signs of life; "the fetus quickened")
- animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify -- (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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