0 past simple and past participle of quicken --
1 to become quicker, or to make something become quicker: --
The tempo of progress quickened with constitutional discussions held locally in 1963.
Assets which are now largely sterilised are quickened and made liquid.
The pace of collapse quickened in the last quarter of 1991: from 900 collapses a week to 995, or 199 business collapses each working day.
I think that a quickened public conscience has made some of these cases of more news value than they used to be.
Some extra facilities have been brought into play and the pace of the cull has undoubtedly quickened.
From that moment, the pace quickened.
The pressure groups were thrown up as imperfect and transitional answers to novel imperatives, in a process which began in the 188os and quickened in the 1890s.
As noted earlier, good-quality soil farmers with extra cash had similar outcomes, but on poor-quality soils, slightly higher cash endowments quickened the establishment of viable farms and increased deforestation.
