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quicken

/kwik-uhn/US // ˈkwɪk ən //UK // (ˈkwɪkən) //

快捷,快捷键,快手,快车

Related Words

promote促进,推动,推广,推销strengthen加强,强化,增强,巩固revive振兴,复兴,复甦,重振旗鼓step up加强,加紧,加把劲accelerate加速,加速推进,加速前进,加速发展hasten匆匆忙忙,催促,催促着,匆匆忙忙地spur刺激,刺激性,刺激性的stimulate刺激,激励,激发,刺激性expedite加快,尽快,加速,加快推进revitalize振兴,重振活力,重振,重振旗鼓activate激活,启动,启用,活动inspire激发,激励,鼓舞人心,激发灵感spring春天,春季,弹簧,春天来了move行动,移动,举措,搬迁actuate促成,推动,促使,促动dispatch派遣,派出所,派遣人员,调遣pique赌气,皮克,匹克,比格arouse唤起,激发,引起,激起vivify活化,生机勃勃,生命力,活力animate动画,动画片,动画制作,动画化

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
    • : to give or restore vigor or activity to; stir up, rouse, or stimulate: to quicken the imagination.
    • : to revive; restore life to: The spring rains quickened the earth.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become more active, sensitive, etc.: This drug causes the pulse to quicken.
    • : to become alive; receive life.
    • : to enter that stage of pregnancy in which the fetus gives indications of life.
    • : to begin to manifest signs of life.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmake faster; invigorate
Forms: quickening
Synonyms
accelerate加速,加速推进,加速前进,加速发展expedite加快,尽快,加速,加快推进hasten匆匆忙忙,催促,催促着,匆匆忙忙地promote促进,推动,推广,推销revitalize振兴,重振活力,重振,重振旗鼓revive振兴,复兴,复甦,重振旗鼓spur刺激,刺激性,刺激性的step up加强,加紧,加把劲stimulate刺激,激励,激发,刺激性strengthen加强,强化,增强,巩固activate激活,启动,启用,活动actuate促成,推动,促使,促动animate动画,动画片,动画制作,动画化arouse唤起,激发,引起,激起awaken觉醒,唤醒,苏醒,醒来dispatch派遣,派出所,派遣人员,调遣energize发动,激发活力,激发,激活excite激动人心,使人兴奋,激动人心的,激动galvanize镀锌,镀金goad鞭策,鞭笞,鞭打,鞭挞grow增长,成长,长,壮大hurry匆匆忙忙,匆忙,赶时间,快点impel促使,推动,鞭策,催促incite煽动,鼓动,挑动,挑起increase增加,提高,增长,增innervate管辖,役使,关照,神经inspire激发,激励,鼓舞人心,激发灵感kindle点燃,点读,点阅,点读机liven活泼,活跃,活力,活泼的motivate激励,促使,激励的,励志move行动,移动,举措,搬迁pique赌气,皮克,匹克,比格precipitate沉淀物,沉淀,淀积物,淀refresh刷新,刷新纪录,刷刷新,刷新了rouse鼓动,鼓动人心,唤醒,鼓动起来speed速度,速度快,速度快慢spring春天,春季,弹簧,春天来了stir搅动,搅拌,挑动,搅动了urge敦促,督促,促成,促请vitalize活化,生化,生机勃勃,生动化vivify活化,生机勃勃,生命力,活力innerve内脏,内部,內幕消息,内脏器官make haste匆匆忙忙,匆匆忙忙地,赶时间,赶路shake up动摇,动摇了,震动,甩甩手vivificate活化,活性化,活着,活化为
Antonyms
decelerate减速,减缓,减速器,减低速度discourage劝阻,劝告,阻止,劝说dissuade劝阻,劝说,劝退,劝解halt停住,停顿,停止,驻足hinder阻碍,妨碍,碍,阻碍因素hurt伤害,负伤,伤痛,受伤的slow缓慢,慢,缓慢的,缓bore内孔,镗孔,内孔的,孔雀calm平静,平息,平静的,平静下来deaden死气沉沉,死亡,死气沉沉的,死人decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌delay延迟,拖延,拖延时间,延误depress压抑,沮丧,沮丧的,压抑的deter遏止,阻止,阻吓,遏阻diminish减弱,贬低,减轻,削弱disenchant失宠,失恋,丧失信心,失宠的人lull忽悠,冷清,忽冷忽热,冷淡prohibit禁止,禁制,违禁,不准quiet安静,安静的,宁静,静repress压迫,压制,镇压,压抑rest休息时间,休息,休息时,休息区stop停止,停下来,停,停住wait等待,伺候,侍候,等待着dull枯燥乏味,枯燥无味,枯燥的,沉闷的retard迟钝,迟钝的人,迟缓,拖延时间weaken削弱,弱化,减弱,削弱了

Examples

  • More recently, researchers have correlated a quickening economic pulse in Iceland with years that had above-average temperatures, just as suffocating heat waves in the global South have tempered growth.

  • To that end, he floated the possibility of appointing more “judges with some expertise in the field” to quicken the pace at which cases proceed.

  • That quickens their release of carbon back into the air — which is disappointing news for global warming.

  • In the hours that followed, the pace of job cuts at some of the world’s biggest companies — across in a range of industries from energy to finance — quickened.

  • When the pace quickened, I was terrible about setting boundaries between my work and home lives.

  • Quicken Loans moved its headquarters to downtown Detroit in 2010, and has invested a billion dollars in the years since.

  • Even Judy's appeals to "try and remember about Bombay" failed to quicken him.

  • The man did not live, nor could the occasion arrive, which would quicken his constitutional drawl.

  • The monk's eyes seemed to quicken, as though his interest in the outer world had suddenly revived.

  • I put the strongest in the rear, with orders to quicken the pace of the sluggards with the points of their bayonets in the back.

  • One wave will be mowed down and another will quicken the pace a trifle and take its place.

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