quicken  /kw'ɪkən/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  quicken
  (vt.)加快,刺激,使有生氣,鼓舞,使復活(vi.)加快,變活躍

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Quicken \Quick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {quickened}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Quickening}.] [AS. cwician. See {Quick}, a.]
     1. To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as
        from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to,
        stimulate; to incite.
  
              The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead.
                                                    --Shak.
  
              Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that
              quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize.
                                                    -- South.
  
     2. 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.
  
     3. (Shipbuilding) 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.
  
     Syn: To revive; resuscitate; animate; reinvigorate; vivify;
          refresh; stimulate; sharpen; incite; hasten; accelerate;
          expedite; dispatch; speed.

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Quicken \Quick"en\, v. i.
     1. 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.
  
              The heart is the first part that quickens, and the
              last that dies.                       -- Ray.
  
              And keener lightnings quicken in her eye. --Pope.
  
              When the pale and bloodless east began To quicken to
              the sun.                              --Tennyson.
  
     2. To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated;
        as, his pulse quickened.

資料來源(4): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  quicken
       v 1: move faster; "The car accelerated" [syn: {accelerate}, {speed
            up}, {speed}] [ant: {decelerate}]
       2: make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite" [syn: {whet}]
       3: give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him"
          [syn: {invigorate}]
       4: show signs of life; "the fetus quickened"
       5: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
          "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired
          my health" [syn: {animate}, {recreate}, {reanimate}, {revive},
           {renovate}, {repair}, {vivify}, {revivify}]