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Synonyms for quicken
ˈkwɪk ənquick·en

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. quickennoun

    Synonyms:
    quickbeam

  2. quickenverb

    To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.

    Synonyms:
    quickbeam

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. quicken

    To quicken, in the sense here considered, is to increase speed, move or cause to move more rapidly, as through more space or with, a greater number of motions in the same time. To accelerate is to increase the speed of action or of motion. A motion whose speed increases upon itself is said to be accelerated, as the motion of a falling body, which becomes swifter with every second of time. To accelerate any work is to hasten it toward a finish, commonly by quickening all its operations in orderly unity toward the result. To despatch is to do and be done with, to get a thing off one's hands. To despatch an enemy is to kill him outright and quickly; to despatch a messenger is to send him in haste; to despatch a business is to bring it quickly to an end. Despatch is commonly used of single items. To promote a cause is in any way to bring it forward, advance it in power, prominence, etc. To speed is really to secure swiftness; to hasten is to attempt it, whether successfully or unsuccessfully. Hurry always indicates something of confusion. The hurried man forgets dignity, appearance, comfort, courtesy, everything but speed; he may forget something vital to the matter in hand; yet, because reckless haste may attain the great object of speed, hurry has come to be the colloquial and popular word for acting quickly. To facilitate is to quicken by making easy; to expedite is to quicken by removing hindrances. A good general will improve roads to facilitate the movements of troops, hasten supplies and perfect discipline to promote the general efficiency of the force, despatch details of business, expedite all preparations, in order to accelerate the advance and victory of his army.

    Synonyms:
    accelerate, advance, despatch, drive, drive on, expedite, facilitate, further, hasten, hurry, make haste, press forward, promote, speed, urge, urge on

    Antonyms:
    check, clog, delay, drag, hinder, impede, obstruct, retard

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. quicken

    Synonyms:
    accelerate, animate, revive, reinvigorate, resuscitate, vivify, stimulate, hurry, hasten, urge, excite, promote, expedite

    Antonyms:
    retard, delay, encumber, clog, drag, detain, discourage, allay

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. accelerate, speed up, speed, quickenverb

    move faster

    "The car accelerated"

    Synonyms:
    recreate, hotfoot, zip, travel rapidly, cannonball along, vivify, whet, bucket along, race, hurry, rush along, hie, hasten, belt along, speed, accelerate, renovate, revivify, reanimate, pelt along, animate, repair, revive, invigorate, speed up, step on it, rush

  2. whet, quickenverb

    make keen or more acute

    "whet my appetite"

    Synonyms:
    whet, accelerate, repair, invigorate, speed, recreate, reanimate, revive, speed up, renovate, animate, vivify, revivify

  3. quicken, invigorateverb

    give life or energy to

    "The cold water invigorated him"

    Synonyms:
    recreate, enliven, invigorate, liven, revive, revivify, renovate, liven up, reinvigorate, accelerate, speed, exalt, reanimate, vivify, animate, repair, whet, inspire, speed up

  4. quickenverb

    show signs of life

    "the fetus quickened"

    Synonyms:
    whet, accelerate, invigorate, speed, recreate, reanimate, revive, speed up, renovate, animate, vivify, repair, revivify

  5. animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivifyverb

    give new life or energy to

    "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

    Synonyms:
    speed up, furbish up, resuscitate, restitute, compensate, animate, remediate, fix, amend, enliven, mend, cheer, vivify, animize, accelerate, refurbish, liven up, renovate, bushel, invigorate, speed, inspire, exalt, resurrect, play, hearten, restore, freshen up, rectify, touch on, recompense, recreate, animise, remedy, resort, repair, come to, reanimate, embolden, liven, revive, revivify, whet, doctor, indemnify

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. quickenverb

    Synonyms:
    vivify, revive, resuscitate, reinvigorate, refresh, make alive, give life to

  2. quickenverb

    Synonyms:
    hasten, accelerate, speed, hurry, expedite, despatch

  3. quickenverb

    Synonyms:
    stimulate, sharpen, excite, incite

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. quickenverb

    Synonyms:
    revive, vivify, vitalize, resuscitate, animate, excite, stimulate, incite, actuate, accelerate, expedite, hasten, advance, facilitate, further

    Antonyms:
    impede, retard, hinder, obstruct, check

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "quicken":

    accelerate, expedite

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. quicken

    Synonyms:
    To come to life; to make quick, see there

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  1. Joe Brusuelas:

    This would cause the Federal Reserve to quicken the pace of its policy normalization. You would hear more about a 50-basis point increase.

  2. Jeff Navin:

    Some of the biggest national security questions facing the country run through Piketon and Kemmerer, a Post-Soviet dealAmerican reliance on foreign enriched uranium echoes its competitive disadvantages on microchips and the critical minerals used to make electric batteries — two essential components of the global energy transition.But in the case of uranium enrichment, United States once had an advantage and chose to give it up.In the 1950s, as the nuclear era began in earnest, Piketon became the site of one of two enormous enrichment facilities in the Ohio River Valley region, where a process called gaseous diffusion was used.Meanwhile, the Soviet Union developed centrifuges in a secret program, relying on a team of German physicists and engineers captured toward the end of World War II. Its centrifuges proved to be 20 times as energy efficient as gaseous diffusion. By the end of the Cold War, United States and Russia had roughly equal enrichment capacities, but huge differences in the cost of production.In 1993, Washington and Moscow signed an agreement, dubbed Megatons to Megawatts, in which United States purchased and imported much of Russia’s enormous glut of weapons-grade uranium, which United States then downgraded to use in power plants. This provided the U.S. with cheap fuel and Moscow with cash, and was seen as a de-escalatory gesture.But it also destroyed the profitability of America’s inefficient enrichment facilities, which were eventually shuttered. Then, instead of investing in upgraded centrifuges in United States, successive administrations kept buying from Russia.ImageA mural celebrates Piketon’s gaseous diffusion plant, long ago shuttered, and United States role in the local economy.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesImageIn the lobby at Piketon plant, a miniature display of new centrifuges.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesThe centrifuge plant in Piketon, operated by Centrus Energy, occupies a corner of the site of the old gaseous diffusion facility. Building United States to United States full potential would create thousands of jobs, according to Centrus Energy. And it could produce the kinds of enriched uranium needed in both current and new-age nuclear plants.Lacking Piketon’s output, plants like TerraPower’s would have to look to foreign producers, like France, that might be a more politically acceptable and reliable supplier than Russia, but would also be more expensive.TerraPower sees itself as integral to phasing out climate-warming fossil fuels in electricity. Its reactor would include a sodium-based battery that would allow the plant to ramp up electricity production on demand, offsetting fluctuations in wind or solar production elsewhere.It is part of the energy transition that coal-country senators like Mr. Manchin and John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, are keen to fix as they eye nuclear replacements for lost coal jobs and revenue. While Mr. Manchin in particular has complicated the Biden administration’s efforts to quicken the transition away from fossil fuels, he also pushed back against colleagues, mostly Democrats, who are skeptical of nuclear power’s role in that transition, partly because of the radioactive waste it creates.

  3. Percy Bysshe Shelley:

    Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

  4. Lloyd Jackson:

    County officials have yet to make a decision as to what to do with the facility. But while they dither, the monthly meter is running. According to figures compiled by the Detroit Free Press some of the monthly costs include : Despite the hefty costs of The Wayne County Jail, and the county teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, Wayne County Executive Warren Evans does not appear to be any closer to making a decision on the building site. Due to the county's financial state, anything done on the... jail will just add to the deficit, once the deficit has been solved, the county can move forward with options on whether to finish the Gratiot site or renovate the three existing jails. As the county makes progress on its recovery plan, it will better be able to solve the jail issue. The Wayne County Jail was originally proposed as a $ 300 million, 2,000-bed jail that would combine the other county correctional facilities. Ground was broken on the work site in September 2011, but was stalled nearly two years later, in June 2013, when a 60-day suspension was imposed after projected cost overruns totaled nearly $ 100 million. Construction never resumed, and later that summer, the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation into the project. The investigation led to the arrest of former Wayne County Chief Financial Officer Carla Sledge, attorney Steven Collins and construction manager Anthony Parlovecchio. Five parties have expressed interest in buying the construction site, including Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, who has been active in Detroit’s ongoing attempt at urban renewal. But so far, the county has not accepted any offers — which is proving costly to taxpayers.

  5. Michael Drayne:

    The central question of the Quicken story is, how much and how quickly can they convert what they've done to purchase-money transactions.


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  • паско́рыць, паскара́цьBelarusian
  • оживить, уско́рить, ускоря́тьRussian
  • துரிதப்படுத்துTamil

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