Quicken

Quick meaning: Quicken is a verb meaning Senses relating to life or states of activity.

Meaning

Senses relating to life or states of activity.

More Meanings

1. Senses relating to speed.
2. (transitive, rare) To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
3. (chiefly Ireland, Northern England) In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
4. (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.

Example Sentences

[…] Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken at the edges and small green haws to show.

Quickens-bog may at first seem to derive its name from the plant Quicken, by which, Scotticé, we understand couch-grass, dog-grass, or the Triticum repens of [Carl] Linnæus, and the common English monosyllable Bog, by which we mean, in popular language, a marsh or morass; in Latin, Palus.

Word Forms

• quickens
• quickening
• quickened

Synonyms for quicken

Depending on context, synonyms include quickbeam, quackgrass, quickens, quitch, twitch, witchgrass.

Antonyms for quicken

Common opposites include retard, slow, decelerate, slow down, slow up.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include speed, accelerate, speed up, invigorate, vivify, recreate.

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