verb (written)
1 to become quicker or make sth quicker:
[V] She felt her heartbeat quicken as he approached. * [VN] He quickened his pace to catch up with them.
2 to become more active; to make sth more active:
[V] His interest quickened as he heard more about the plan. [also VN]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for quicken is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does quicken appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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