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quicken


verb
1. move faster (Freq. 3)
- The car accelerated
Syn:
accelerate, speed up, speed
Ant:
decelerate (for: accelerate)
Derivationally related forms:
quickening, speed (for: speed), speedup (for: speed up), acceleratory (for: accelerate), accelerative (for: accelerate)
Hypernyms:
intensify, deepen
Hyponyms:
brisk, brisk up, brisken
Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. make keen or more acute
- whet my appetite
Syn:
whet
Hypernyms:
stimulate, excite, stir
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. 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
Derivationally related forms:
revivification (for: revivify), vivification (for: vivify), quickener, recreation (for: recreate)
Hypernyms:
stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
Verb Group:
come to, revive, resuscitate
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
4. give life or energy to
- The cold water invigorated him
Syn:
invigorate
Derivationally related forms:
invigoration (for: invigorate), quickener
Hypernyms:
stimulate, excite
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
5. show signs of life
- the fetus quickened
Derivationally related forms:
quickening
Hypernyms:
move
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s

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