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.
To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
To rely or depend on.
To be or to put into a state of rest.
To lean, lie, or lay.
To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
To sleep; slumber.
To come to a pause or an end; end.
To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
To lie dormant.
To stay, remain, be situated.
A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
Absence of motion.
Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
Any object designed to be used to support something else.
Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
A final position after death.
A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
That which remains.
Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.