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Verbi

1. Senses relating to life or states of activity.
2. (transitive, rare) To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
3. To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
4. To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
5. To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
6. (literary, also, figuratively) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
7. (archaic) To make or help (something) to burn.
8. To make (a drug, liquor, etc.) more effective or stimulating.
9. (passive voice) Of a pregnant woman: to be in the state of reaching the stage of pregnancy at which the movements of the foetus are first felt.
10. To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
11. To grow bright; to brighten.
12. Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
13. (also, figuratively) 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.
14. To give life; to make alive.
15. To come back to life, to receive life.
16. (rare) To inspire or stimulate.
17. Senses relating to speed.
18. To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
19. (construction, nautical (shipbuilding), archaic) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper, or (an incline) steeper.
20. (intransitive) To become quicker or faster.

Substantiivi

1. (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
2. (chiefly Ireland, Northern England) In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).