📖 Definitions of "Quickens"
verb
- 1
To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
- 2
To come back to life, receive life.
- 3
To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
- 4
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.
noun
- 1
A weed, quitch.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Quickens"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| speedverb | (intransitive) To go fast. |
| accelerateverb | (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of. |
| speed upverb | (idiomatic, intransitive) To accelerate; to increase speed. |
| invigorateverb | (transitive) To impart vigor, strength, or vitality to. |
| vivifyverb | (transitive) To bring to life; to enliven. |
| animateverb | (transitive) To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit. |
| recreateverb | (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself. |
| revivifyverb | (transitive) To reanimate, bring back to life. |
| reviveverb | (transitive) (figurative) To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize. |
| reanimateverb | (ambitransitive) To restore (someone or something) to animation or life; to come back to animation or life. |
| whetverb | (transitive) To stimulate or make more keen. |
| acceleratesverb | (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of. |
| quichnoun | Obsolete spelling of quitch. [Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)] |
| squitchnoun | quitchgrass |
| downverb | (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards. |
| crottlenoun | (orignally Scotland) Any of various lichens gathered for dyeing, especially those of the genus Parmelia. |
| neapnoun | A neap tide. |
| grass rakenoun | Synonym of lawn rake. |
| pleughnoun | (Scotland) plow. |
| eddishnoun | An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been mowed; also, a field of such growth. |
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