Definitions for quickens

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quickens quick·en

Spelling: [kwik-uh n]

IPA: /ˈkwɪk ən/

Quickens is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in quickens (ceiknqsu).

Definitions for quickens

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 quickens

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

Examples for quickens

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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