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Noun quickening has 3 senses
- quickening - the process of showing signs of life; "the quickening of seed that will become ripe grain"
--1 is a kind of organic process, biological process
- quickening - the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels movements of the fetus
--2 is a kind of degree, level, stage, point
--2 is a part of pregnancy, gestation, maternity
- acceleration, quickening, speedup - the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
--3 is a kind of speed, speeding, hurrying
Verb quicken has 5 senses
- accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken - move faster; "The car accelerated"
--1 is one way to intensify, deepen
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- whet, quicken - make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite"
--2 is one way to stimulate, excite, stir
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- quicken, invigorate - give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him"
--3 is one way to stimulate, excite
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- quicken - show signs of life; "the fetus quickened"
--4 is one way to move
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify - give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
--5 is one way to stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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