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quickeningverbpresent participle of quicken to cause to move or proceed fast or fastershe eventually quickened her pace so she could keep up with the others accelerating, bundling, fast-tracking, hastening, hurrying, rushing, speeding (up), whisking driving, goading, prodding, propelling, pushing, racing, spurring, stirring, urgingaiding, dispatching, easing, encouraging, expediting, facilitating braking, decelerating, retarding, slowing (down) delaying, encumbering, fettering, hampering, hindering, hobbling, holding back, holding up, impeding, interfering (with), manacling, reining (in), restraining, shackling, trammeling(or trammelling), tying up(or tieing up)arresting, checking, stalling, staying, stilling, stopping to give life, vigor, or spirit tothe news that we'd head to Florida for Christmas quickened the children, who instantly began jumping for joy amping (up), animating, bracing, energizing, enlivening, filliping, firing, gingering (up), invigorating, jazzing (up), juicing up, jump-starting, livening (up), pepping (up), spiking, stimulating, vitalizing, vivifying, zipping (up) arousing, awakening, awaking, raising, rousing, stirring, waking (up)activating, actuating, driving, impelling, motivating, motiving, moving, propellingcharging, electrifying, galvanizingenkindling, exciting, fermenting, fomenting, inciting, inflaming(also enflaming), instigating, kindling, provoking, setting off, sparking, triggering, turning on, whipping (up)abetting, boosting, buoying, cheering, emboldening, fortifying, heartening, infusing, inspiring, lifting, rallying, steeling, strengtheningreactivating, reanimating, reawakening, reawaking, recharging, recreating, reenergizing(or re-energizing), refreshening, refreshing, regenerating, reinvigorating, rejuvenating, rekindling, renewing, restimulating, resurrecting, resuscitating, revitalizing, reviving dampening, damping, deadening, dulling, killing burning out, debilitating, doing in, draining, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing, harassing, kayoing, knocking out, sapping, tuckering (out), undermining, washing out, weakening, wearing, wearing out, wearyingchecking, curbing, inhibiting, jading, quelling, quenching, repressing, restraining, slowing, stilling, stunting, suppressingdaunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting |