quicken

/kwˈɪkən/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

verb

1. move faster
   “The car accelerated”
2. make keen or more acute
   “whet my appetite”
3. give life or energy to
   “The cold water invigorated him”
4. show signs of life
   “the fetus quickened”
5. give new life or energy to
   “A hot soup will revive me”

Synonyms for quicken

• accelerate
• speed up
• speed
• whet
• invigorate
• animate
• recreate
• reanimate
• revive
• renovate
• repair
• vivify
• revivify

Words that rhyme with quicken

• chicken
• sicken
• stricken
• thicken
• dicken
• ficken
• hicken
• licon
• picken
• picon
• ricken
• vicon