Word Finder - quickens

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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

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A weed, quitch.

But it is the spirit which quickens them that can understand spiritually what they hear."

When stationary, the most efficient position in which to hold an umbrella is obviously vertical; when walking, the umbrella must be held more and more inclined from the vertical as the walker quickens his pace.

He quickens, and He judges.

That it has won the Palme d'Or at Cannes only quickens their desire for reprisals.

In the very nature of things, articulation is an unsatisfactory means of education; while the use of the manual alphabet quickens and invigorates mental activity, since through it the deaf child is brought into close contact with the English language, and the highest and most abstract ideas may be conveyed to the mind readily and accurately.

First the Holy Spirit quickens the spirit of the man which is dead.

Here, your breathing quickens and your heart rate increases.

Using the left analog quickens their demise since it locks-on to the next target.

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