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加快,刺激,使有生氣,鼓舞,使復活加快,變活躍

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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 : WordNet®

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}]