Definitions
give new life or energy to
Word origin
From quick(silver) (“mercury”) + -en (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns).
Used in a sentence
“This quicken'd my Reſolution to reſtore her Money, and not only ſo, but I reſolv'd I would give her ſomething over and above her Loſs; […]”
“Whoſoever will goo about to ſave his lyfe⸝ shall looſe it: And whoſoever ſhall looſe his life⸝ ſhall quycken it.”
“I haue ſeen a medicine That's able to breath life into a ſtone, Quicken a rocke, […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Make faster”7 letters
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