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Verb quicken has 5 senses
  1. accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken - move faster; "The car accelerated"
    --1 is one way to intensify, deepen
    Derived form: noun quickening3
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. whet, quicken - make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite"
    --2 is one way to stimulate, excite, stir
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. quicken, invigorate - give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him"
    --3 is one way to stimulate, excite
    Derived form: noun quickener1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  4. quicken - show signs of life; "the fetus quickened"
    --4 is one way to     move
    Derived form: noun quickening2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  5. 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"
    --5 is one way to stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
    Derived form: noun quickener1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
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