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quickening   (TTS Sound)

The noun quickening has 3 senses

• quickening -- (the process of showing signs of life; "the quickening of seed that will become ripe grain")


• quickening -- (the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus)


• acceleration, quickening, speedup -- (the act of accelerating; increasing the speed)

The verb quicken has 5 senses

• accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken -- (move faster; "The car accelerated")


• whet, quicken -- (make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite")


• quicken, invigorate -- (give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him")


• quicken -- (show signs of life; "the fetus quickened")


• animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify -- (give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health")