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英英字典: quickening

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Overview of noun quickening

The noun quickening has 3 senses


  • quickening -- (the process of showing signs of life; "the quickening of seed that will become ripe grain")

  • quickening -- (the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus)

  • acceleration, quickening, speedup -- (the act of accelerating; increasing the speed)


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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