Word Finder - quicken

definition

To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.

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To come back to life, receive life.

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To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.

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Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.

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To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.

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To become faster.

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My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.

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To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.

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to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced

Unfortunately, there was nothing to quicken the healing of his neck.

His scent made her heart quicken and her drowsiness dissipate.

While the walk was less than a half-mile, Ouray's 7,800-foot elevation and the uphill rise caused Dean to quicken his breathing—one more reminder to get in shape.

The trail was not difficult by cross-country standards—just enough of a challenge to stir the blood and quicken the breath.

Jackson felt his pulse quicken.

His penetrating gaze gave her a different kind of chill, one that made her blood quicken as well as her step.

His dark eyes took in her face, and she felt her heart quicken for a different reason.

His words made her blood quicken.

It was a simple kiss that had no reason to quicken her pulse, but it did.

The grim note in Dan's voice made Brady quicken his movements.

Rene Caillie, who started his journey to Timbuktu from Boke in 1827, did much to quicken French interest in the district, and from 1838 onward French naval officers, Bout-Willaumez and his successors, made detailed studies of the coast.

All that he allows is that the perception of natural beauty may, by its resemblance to the primary spiritual beauty, quicken the disposition to divine love in those who are already under the influence of a truly virtuous temper.

While the walk was less than a half-mile, Ouray's 7,800-foot elevation and the uphill rise caused Dean to quicken his breathing—one more reminder to get in shape.

The trail was not difficult by cross-country standards—just enough of a challenge to stir the blood and quicken the breath.

She felt her blood quicken and her skin flush with awareness and heat.

The sight of Jessi made Xander's heart quicken, almost as much as the scent of her blood in the air.

The reference " RS " will quicken the pulse of Porsche connoisseurs.

No more will this plea be allowed, The Lord did not quicken me to duty.

As Frazer notes (Golden Bough, 2 227), this festival appears to belong to the large class of mimetic charms designed to quicken the growth of vegetation; the marriage of Zeus and Hera would in this case represent the union of the king and queen of May.

Just looking at the pictures of the car which are printed here does nothing to quicken the pulse.

Then, now, my Lord quicken thou me according to thy Word.

Quicken then displays the Update Account Balances dialog box.

Whilst I did have £ 300 on the current favorite Hi Dubai in the Pretty Polly and she did quicken well.

The latter had the opportunity to quicken up in the Arc and was left for dead by HR.

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Cards can be chosen for Shoprite, Orvis, and the Quicken Rewards Visa, among others.

It allows you to download all of your financial data to money managers such as Microsoft Money, Quicken, and Managing Your Money.

Prudential 401(k) plan investors can download their account information in Quicken or Money format to easily keep track of their earnings.

The Quicken Loans website provides information on the interest rates available from the company, which is updated daily.

It's designed to quicken the pulse of the reader, to remind them of the passion and heat of desire.

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You need to import financial data from sources other than Quicken, QuickBooks or Microsoft Money.

She paused, the unfamiliar sensation a combination of adrenaline that made her blood quicken and electricity that made her skin tingle.

Though she'd rather not be trapped by the eyes that made her blood quicken, she forced herself to look at him.

Her thoughts drifted to the prisoner, the memory of his touch and the strange energy making her blood quicken.

She stopped in front of it, adrenaline making her heart quicken.

He smiled, and looked over to Dean who felt his pulse quicken.

Nevertheless, or rather for this very reason, its symbols found their way into the rising literature of the vulgar tongues, and helped to quicken the fancy of the artists employed upon church buildings and furniture.

Walker, superintendent of the censuses of 1870 and 1880, the remarkable fact that such reduction coincided with a cause that was regarded as certain to quicken the increase of population, viz, the introduction of a vast body of fresh peasant blood from Europe, afforded proof that in this matter of population morals are far more potent than physical causes.

In the Hephaesteia (the particular festival of the god) there was a torch race, a ceremonial not indeed confined to fire-gods like Hephaestus and Prometheus, but probably in its origin connected with them, whether its object was to purify and quicken the land, or (according to another theory) to transmit a new fire with all possible speed to places where the fire was polluted.

To quicken this by awakening deeper insight into the real objects of "faith," as these bore on their actual life, he develops his high argument on the lines already indicated.

An attempt to quicken this process by bribery provoked, however, an outburst of feeling against Khuen-Hedervary who, though personally innocent, found his position shaken.

I think, too, that they quicken all the child's faculties, because they stimulate the imagination.

He watched her with an intensity that made her blood quicken and her nipples harden.