Definitions for quicken

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quicken quick·en

Spelling: [kwik-uh n]

IPA: /ˈkwɪk ən/

Quicken is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in quicken (ceiknqu).

Definitions for quicken

verb (used with object)

1. to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten:
2. to give or restore vigor or activity to; stir up, rouse, or stimulate:
3. to revive; restore life to:

verb (used without object)

1. to become more active, sensitive, etc.:
2. to become alive; receive life.
3. (of the mother) to enter that stage of pregnancy in which the fetus gives indications of life.
4. (of a fetus in the womb) to begin to manifest signs of life.

Origin of quicken

First recorded in 1250-1300, quicken is from the Middle English word quikenen. See quick, -en¹

Examples for quicken

Alone with the Westerner, Joyce felt her blood begin to quicken.

Therefore, he further permitted his horses to quicken their pace.

And how, on the other hand, are we to strengthen it, to quicken its sluggish blood?

And a song has more than its own life, it has power to quicken, to breed.

More than once they had to quicken their pace to what Matty called a "dog-trot."

We half wished they might appear, that the horses might quicken their paces.

When it boils, quicken the fire, and skim the pot carefully.

He knew, and his heart did not quicken nor his pulse increase so much as a beat.

It is the business of the sacred work to quicken his ear to it.

quicken Loans moved its headquarters to downtown Detroit in 2010, and has invested a billion dollars in the years since.