quicken

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. move faster (Freq. 3)
- The car accelerated
• Syn:
accelerate, speed up, speed
• Ant:
decelerate (for: accelerate)
• Derivationally related forms:
quickening, speed (for: speed), speedup (for: speed up), acceleratory (for: accelerate), accelerative (for: accelerate)
• Hypernyms:
intensify, deepen
• Hyponyms:
brisk, brisk up, brisken
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. make keen or more acute
- whet my appetite
• Syn:
whet
• Hypernyms:
stimulate, excite, stir
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. 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
• Derivationally related forms:
revivification (for: revivify), vivification (for: vivify), quickener, recreation (for: recreate)
• Hypernyms:
stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
• Verb Group:
come to, revive, resuscitate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
4. give life or energy to
- The cold water invigorated him
• Syn:
invigorate
• Derivationally related forms:
invigoration (for: invigorate), quickener
• Hypernyms:
stimulate, excite
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
5. show signs of life
- the fetus quickened
• Derivationally related forms:
quickening
• Hypernyms:
move
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, vivify, revivify, invigorate, whet, accelerate, speed up, speed
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard