Found 3 items, similar to quickened.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: quicken
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: quicken
quicken
v 1: move faster;
“The car accelerated” [syn:
accelerate,
speed up
,
speed] [ant:
decelerate]
2: make keen or more acute;
“whet my appetite” [syn:
whet]
3: give life or energy to;
“The cold water invigorated him”
[syn:
invigorate]
4: show signs of life;
“the fetus quickened”
5: give new life or energy to;
“A hot soup will revive me”;
“This will renovate my spirits”;
“This treatment repaired
my health” [syn:
animate,
recreate,
reanimate,
revive,
renovate,
repair,
vivify,
revivify]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: quickened
Quicken
\Quick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
quickened; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Quickening.] [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.
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The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead.
--Shak.
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Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that
quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize.
-- South.
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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.
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3. (Shipbuilding) 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.
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Syn: To revive; resuscitate; animate; reinvigorate; vivify;
refresh; stimulate; sharpen; incite; hasten; accelerate;
expedite; dispatch; speed.
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