[{"word":"quickens","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To come back to life, receive life.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To become faster.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach."},{"definition":"To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced"}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"A weed, quitch.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quicken","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quickens"]}]