quickening
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ən verb (used with object)
1.
to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
2.
to give or restore vigor or activity to; stir up, rouse, or stimulate: to quicken the imagination.
3.
to revive; restore life to: The spring rains quickened the earth.
verb (used without object)
4.
to become more active, sensitive, etc.: This drug causes the pulse to quicken.
5.
to become alive; receive life.
6.
(of the mother) to enter that stage of pregnancy in which the fetus gives indications of life.
7.
(of a fetus in the womb) to begin to manifest signs of life.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to make or become faster; accelerate: he quickened his walk; her heartbeat quickened with excitement |
| 2. | to impart to or receive vigour, enthusiasm, etc; stimulate or be stimulated: science quickens man's imagination |
| 3. | to make or become alive; revive |
| 4. | a. (of an unborn fetus) to begin to show signs of life |
| b. (of a pregnant woman) to reach the stage of pregnancy at which movements of the fetus can be felt | |
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quicken quick·en (kwĭk'ən)
v. quick·ened, quick·en·ing, quick·ens
To become more rapid.
To reach the stage of pregnancy when the fetus can be felt to move.
quickening n.
The initial signs of fetal life felt by the mother as a result of the movements by the fetus.
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Example sentences
The rate at which that pace is quickening since the beginning of the year is nearly beyond imagining.
The war was quickening other changes in the country, as suggested by that telegraphic messenger.
One is the quickening pace of technological change and price compression within the electronics industry.
Seas are meanwhile rising around the world at a quickening pace in a phenomenon that scientists attribute to global warming.
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