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Quickening   /kwˈɪkənɪŋ/   Listen
Quickening

noun
1.
The process of showing signs of life.
2.
The stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus.
3.
The act of accelerating; increasing the speed.  Synonyms: acceleration, speedup.  Antonym: deceleration.


Quicken

verb
(past & past part. quickened; pres. part. quickening)
1.
Move faster.  Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up.  Antonym: decelerate.
2.
Make keen or more acute.  Synonym: whet.
3.
Give life or energy to.  Synonym: invigorate.
4.
Show signs of life.
5.
Give new life or energy to.  Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify.  "This will renovate my spirits" , "This treatment repaired my health"



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"Quickening" Quotes from Famous Books



... Quickening his steps, he turned in the direction of the Capitol Square, which stretched, like the painted curtain of a theatre, across the end of the street. A singular intuition, a presentiment, had come to him that if he could sustain this impulse, this tide of energy until ...
— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow
... said Lionel, but so listlessly that all Sir Oliver's quickening enthusiasm perished again at once and no more ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini
... huge mass of engine and plow gathered headway, the pounding exhausts quickening until they blended in a continuous roar. The little Irishman stayed himself with a foot against the boiler brace; the fireman ducked under the canvas curtain and clung to the coal bulkhead; and Ford held on ...
— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde
... being spoken, his courage oozed away and anti-climax, followed. He paled and trembled, yet he knelt on until she should bid him rise, and furtively he watched her face. He saw it darken; he saw the brows knit; he noted the quickening breath, and in all these signs he read his doom ...
— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini
... and then slipped from him, and was lost. He did not pause there, but strode on. But just there, what had been frightful became hideous. For at once he was possessed with the conviction that the thing that lurked at a distance behind him was quickening its movement, and coming up to seize him. The dreadful fancy stung him like a goad, and, with a start, he accelerated his flight, horribly conscious that what he feared was slinking along in the shadow, close to the dark bulks of the houses, ...
— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various


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