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Definition of Quicken
- give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
- show signs of life; "the fetus quickened"
- move faster; "The car accelerated"
- give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him"
- make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite"
Hyponyms: brisk, brisk up, brisken
Grouped Verbs: come to, revive, resuscitate
Derivational Morphology: revival, resurgence, revitalization, revitalisation, revivification, vivification, invigoration, animation, quickener, invigorator, enlivener, refreshment, recreation, quickening, acceleration, speedup, speed, speeding, hurrying, velocity, swiftness, fastness, spiritedness, brio
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