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(1):
(a.) To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed.
(2):
(v. i.) To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.
(3):
(a.) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced.
(4):
(v. i.) To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb.
(5):
(a.) To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Quicken'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​q/quicken.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Quicken'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​q/quicken.html. 1828.