To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
To punish severely.
To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
To produce intense pain.
To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
To exert an overwhelming effect on.
To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
To force a company out of business.
To deadmelt.
To render inoperative.
To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
To use up or to waste.
To cause to assume the value zero.
To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
Specifically, the death blow.
A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
The act of killing.
The result of killing; that which has been killed.
To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
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 take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
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.
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.