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How to pronounce quicken in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms whet
Type of stir, excite, stimulate
Type Words
Synonyms invigorate
Type of stimulate, excite
Derivation quickener
Type Words
Synonyms animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify
Type of stimulate, perk up, arouse, energize, energise, brace
Verb group come to, resuscitate, revive
Derivation quickener
Type Words
Synonyms accelerate, speed, speed up
Type of intensify, deepen
Has types brisken, brisk up, brisk
Derivation quickening
Type Words
Type of move
Derivation quickening


the fetus quickened.

Examples of quicken

quicken
Traders added to bets for a fourth month that consumer-price gains will quicken.
From the bloomberg.com
Quicken Loans Arena this season, managed to go 9-4while Ilgauskas was sidelined.
From the dailynews.com
Do drunk art students shouting over cheap synthesizers still quicken your pulse?
From the guardian.co.uk
I am sure that whatever horse you put in front of him, he would quicken by them.
From the guardian.co.uk
Trichet said it may quicken further before moderating toward the end of the year.
From the bloomberg.com
Now, thanks to a clumsy move by Microsoft itself, Linux adoption could quicken.
From the businessweek.com
Quicken moved its first 1,700 employees downtown from the suburbs in August 2010.
From the freep.com
Quigley implored his team to move better without the ball and quicken its pace.
From the kentucky.com
Quicken will no doubt give one of Kiplinger's favorite sites a run for its money.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Accelerate: move faster; "The car accelerated"
  • Whet: make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite"
  • Give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him"
  • Show signs of life; "the fetus quickened"
  • Animate: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
  • Quicken is a personal finance management tool developed by Intuit, Inc. Quicken runs on Windows and Macintosh systems. Previous versions ran on DOS. An online version is also available. ...
  • The European rowan tree; To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. [from 14th c.]; To come back to life, receive life. [from 14th c.]; To make quicker; to hasten, speed up. [from 17th c.]; To become faster. [from 17th c.]
  • A provider of financial and business management software.
  • To awaken, coming to life