quicken
Make things faster
To quicken is to make or become faster: His pulse quickened.
It also means to come alive or stimulate into activity—an older sense preserved in phrases like quicken the spirit.
In pregnancy, quickening is the moment when fetal movement is first felt.
The root meaning connects speed and life: what is quick moves, and to be quick once meant to be alive. (Capitalized Quicken is financial software.)
Rate of motion
- hastenTo accelerate or rush
- expediteSpeed up a process
- rushQuick sudden movement
- hurryMove with urgency
velocity · boost · swift · rapid · pace · momentum · tempo · propel
Give life to
- enlivenMake more spirited
- invigorateTo fill with energy
- energizeSupply with vitality
- awakenRouse from slumber
vivify · revitalize · rouse · activate · vitalize
Provoke into activity
- piqueWounded pride, resentment
- arouseTo stimulate or excite
- sparkTiny fiery particle
- stirMix by circling
whet · excite · intrigue · captivate · engage · provoke · inspire · ignite
Rhythmic cardiac contraction
- cardiacPertaining to the heart
- palpitationsAwareness of abnormal heartbeat
- adrenalineEmergency response hormone
- throbbingRhythmic painful pulsing
flutter · pounding · tachycardia · excitement · anticipation · startle · fright · exhilaration
speed
Rate of motion
hurry · velocity · boost · swift · rapid · pace · momentum · tempo · propel · thrust
animate
Give life to
- enlivenMake more spirited
- invigorateTo fill with energy
- energizeSupply with vitality
stimulate
Provoke into activity
stir · whet · excite · intrigue · captivate · engage · provoke · inspire · ignite · kindle
heartbeat
Rhythmic cardiac contraction
- cardiacPertaining to the heart
- palpitationsAwareness of abnormal heartbeat
- adrenalineEmergency response hormone
throbbing · flutter · pounding · tachycardia · excitement · anticipation · startle · fright · exhilaration
germinate
Begin plant development
womb · embryo · conception · life · stir · bud · nascent · emerge · vitality · genesis
- hurry uphurry, hurry up, rush, hustle, move it
- verbsjump, be, speak, wait, do
- accelerationaccelerate, acceleration, accelerating, speed up, speeding up
- come aliveawaken, stir, arise, revive, animate
- Getting Aheadshortcut, expedite, accelerate, speed up, promotion
- time verbswait, pause, delay, hasten, hurry
- quick fixHasty temporary solution
- quick fixesTemporary solutions, not thorough
- quick lookBrief visual inspection
- quick napShort restorative sleep
- quick as a flashExtremely fast, immediate
- quick learnerOne who masters rapidly
quick, quickly, quickness, quickest, quicker, quickening, quickened, quickens, quicksilver