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quicken
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. move faster; "The car accelerated" [syn: accelerate , speed up , speed ] [ant: decelerate ] make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite" [syn: whet ] give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him" [syn: invigorate ] show signs of life; "the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sb's pulse quickens (= starts to beat faster ) ▪ He heard a footfall in the passage outside and felt his pulse quicken. the pace quickens/accelerates ▪ The pace of change is quickening. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (lb en transitive now literary) To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. (from 14 th c.) 2 (lb en intransitive now literary) To come back to life, receive life. (from 14 th c.) 3 (lb en intransitive) To take on a state of activity ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quicken \Quick"en\, v. i. 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "come to life; give life to," from quick (adj.) + -en (1). Meaning "become faster" is from 1805. Related: Quickened ; quickening . An earlier verb was simply quick (c.1200), from Old English gecwician .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Quicken is a personal finance management tool developed by Intuit, Inc. On March 3, 2016, Intuit announced plans to sell Quicken to H.I.G. Capital . Terms of the sale were not disclosed. Different (and incompatible) versions of Quicken run on Windows and ...
Usage examples of quicken.
She was always so self-contained, so immaculate, so perfectly poised and turned out that his need to see her with her mouth swollen after love, her hair tangled by his fingers, her eyes languorous and heavy, her breathing quickened, sharp and desirous, was sometimes so great that he ached to reach out and take hold of her.
They naturally go together where there is adaptedness for them, mutually quickening and increasing each other.
Because sometimes love stupefies instead of quickens, and because I had been in a way her judge, and I thought it would be base of me to revenge myself on her by satisfying my amorous desires, and possibly because I was a fool, as I have often been in the course of my existence.
He quickened his pace and caught up to Arak just as two oversized bronze doors swung open.
I shall try to make these dead men quicken into life for your behoof, and to call back out of the mists of the past those scenes which were brisk enough in the acting, though they read so dully and so heavily in the pages of the worthy men who have set themselves to record them.
Quickening had a fire built close to where Walker Boh lay sleeping and she took up a position at his side and did not move.
Quickening lay down next to Walker Boh and went to sleep, her body pressed close against his.
The line spread out along the broken seam, Dees in the lead, Carisman, Quickening, Morgan, and Walker Boh following, and Pe Ell last.
But Quickening had assured him in that way she had of dispelling all doubt that Horner Dees was the man they needed.
He quickened his pace, hopped over the gutter, and waded down the dragging muck in the middle of Rue Douane, keeping clear of the rough shacks and stucco cottages on either side.
The pulse was still quickening, and even more disturbHARMFUL INTENT t5 ing, there was an ectopic, irregular heartbeat.
The pulse was still quickening, and even more disturbing, there was an ectopic, irregular heartbeat.
One of these evaginations followed the route they had taken on their way to the diving party, and Kerans felt his step quicken as they approached the planetarium.
There with a barely controlled fierceness that constantly battled the more rational need to be gentle with her, they came together like midnight sky and morning sun, dark upon pale gold as she welcomed him with slender arms, and the quickening heat of her body.
The formerly lethargic Guyans had quickened their walk to a trot, and the leaves above the path now moved in a rapidly rising wind.