Definition of quicken

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Quicken (v. i.) To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened..

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Expedite :: Expedite (v. t.) To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants..
Enquicken :: Enquicken (v. t.) To quicken; to make alive.
Enliven :: Enliven (v. t.) To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire..
Quickening :: Quickening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quicke.
Quickening :: Quickening (n.) The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life..
Accelerate :: Accelerate (v. t.) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
Animate :: Animate (v. t.) To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body..
Quickener :: Quickener (n.) One who, or that which, quickens..
Chirrup :: Chirrup (v. t.) To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.
Accelerative :: Accelerative (a.) Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.
Appromt :: Appromt (v. t.) To quicken; to prompt.
Quick :: Quick (v. t. & i.) To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.
#NAME? :: -en () A suffix signifying to make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must not be confused with -en corresponding in Old English to the AS. infinitive ending -an..
Quickening :: Quickening (n.) The act or process of making or of becoming quick.
Requicken :: Requicken (v. t.) To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to.
Quicken Tree :: Quicken tree () The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree..
Quicken :: Quicken (a.) 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..
Quickens :: Quickens (n.) Quitch grass.
Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite..
Livingness :: Livingness (n.) The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
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