To show a high level of activity and haste, energization or excitement, to be busy as a bee in one’s actions but perhaps mentally charged.
To fly while making such a sound.
Of a group of people, to talk about some interesting topic excitedly.
To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly.
To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.
To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over a specified area, as to make a surprise pass.
To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.
To cut the hair in a close-cropped military style, or buzzcut.
To communicate with (a person) by means of a buzzer.
Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes.
Synonym of fizz-buzz (“counting game”)
The audible friction of voiced consonants.
A whisper.
A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.
A continuous humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.
A telephone call or e-mail.
To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
To grow bright; to brighten.
To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
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.
To give life; to make alive.
To inspire or stimulate.
To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
To come back to life, to receive life.
To become quicker or faster.
Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.